"X is just Y phrased differently!" Yeah, and? People vary. How you understand things is not universal.
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I like the idea that if you come up with X, which could also be Y, but Y has a lot more history and other work about it, then you're doing inventor-of-X a favor by showing them Y. They can read about Y instead and build on their idea.
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this is for sure the good-alignment version yeah
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One might say that the magic of philosophy is compressing ideas you already had. See the preface to Wittgenstein's "Tractatus": "This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it—or similar thoughts."
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typical case i have in mind is "dude, i just spent a quarter hour reading your post and it turns out to just reinvent modus ponens"
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maybe you guys hang out in more advanced places where this doesn't constantly happen
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or less advanced places where somebody reinventing modus ponens would be a miracle it does sound like your first mistake was reading a post though
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