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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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      R.P. Retweeted David Chapman

      I'm not even sure he means it, or perhaps just has a very idiosyncratic definition of philosophy, because he cites philosophers to supposedly useful ends all the time. One example, I quickly found:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1203342162991046657?s=20 …

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      David Chapman @Meaningness
      📺 Why Heidegger is so important for our current cultural crisis of meaning; & also for re-thinking obsolete concepts of what we are are do. Inspiring introduction by @vervaeke_john! If you’ve read my stuff, you’ll enjoy many realizations of connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrkqopjEceU …
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    2. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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      Replying to @ResonantPyre @GeniesLoki and

      So, my sympathetic reading of his statement is that he actually does appreciate some philosophers and their work but makes a relatively arbitrary and idiosyncratic demarcation of the stuff he finds useful in their work, deeming it not philosophy, but something else.

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    3. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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      he is entitled to do this, he can use words how he likes, but I'll just say it poses a significant barrier to communication for people being exposed to him for the first time and burns unnecessary good will with people that might otherwise be receptive to his points.

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    4. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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      it really wouldn't matter for any random person, but as someone mildly interested in his meaningness project after reading it a little, finding some bits useful, I would like to see it not arbitrarily cut off from other spheres, disciplines like philosophy

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    5. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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      R.P. Retweeted David Chapman

      to be fair, I may misinterpret him! but I think the interpretation he might intend sounds extremely unintuitive:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1258136166877945857?s=20 …

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      David Chapman @Meaningness
      Replying to @lifeneoned @sonyasupposedly and 8 others
      I think you are mistaking my illocutionary intent here. It is not to make a fact claim but to redirect cognitive attention.
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    6. Arbutus Tree‏ @aphercotropist May 6
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      Replying to @ResonantPyre @GeniesLoki and

      Unfortunately, no one owns words, and there is no reasonable interpretation of either of his claims "philosophy is comprehensively bunk" and "I don't do philosophy" which is true.

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    7. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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      Replying to @aphercotropist @GeniesLoki and

      Yeah, I just try to be a little sympathetic in general with semantic disputes over complex words. Regardless of what he intended, you are correct that standard reasonable interpretations would make his statement false.

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Replying to @ResonantPyre @aphercotropist and

      “If we were imaginary philosophers…”pic.twitter.com/k0zJMdnkUZ

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    9. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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      Replying to @Meaningness @aphercotropist and

      I wouldn’t try to argue that the book is philosophy in some grand sense, just that it has philosophy, does discuss and reference philosophical claims, and also make factual judgements about them. For example, “the metaphysical errors are implicit”, in that part you’ve shared.

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    10. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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      Replying to @ResonantPyre @Meaningness and

      It would seem to me that to talk of a metaphysical error is to do philosophy, to do metaphysics, whether we like it or not. There are philosophers who made their careers largely on saying other philosophers metaphysical claims were wrong, and on correcting them.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Replying to @ResonantPyre @aphercotropist and

      Let’s say I’m building some complicated piece of chemical apparatus, and as part of that there is a microcontroller, and it’s got like 200 lines of code that runs in it, and I wrote the code. Does that mean that my whole project is “really software engineering”?

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        2. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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          I would not claim your whole project is philosophy! Just that it used some philosophy, did make some philosophical claims at points. The scope, I have no idea since I have not read all of it. It would seem to me a lot of it discusses cultural and psychological states (1/2)

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        3. R.P.‏ @ResonantPyre May 6
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          some of which have philosophical correlates. You would agree with this, I assume. Topics like “eternalism”, “post-modernism”, etc. in the context of this, you do engage in seemingly philosophical talk, scattered claims. Like ‘implicit metaphysical errors’. (2/2)

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        1. Arbutus Tree‏ @aphercotropist May 6
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          Not your whole project, but you're still doing software engineering. You are also grossly understating the role of philosophy in your work by making that comparison.

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