This just in: philosophers smarter than non-philosophers, get this - according to philosophers!.
philosophy is funny because half the ideas are just so dumb. but we make progress because they are still slightly less dumb than the ideas people have who don't do philosophy
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"people who study thing might be better at thing than people who don't study thing!" There, I fixed that for you :)
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'every philosophy is a false theory which, despite being untrue, has something to teach us about the world' Bryan Magee
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No matter how complex or clever once understood and assimilated any idea will appear as dumb. The most complicated ones will appear as elegant. Anything is beneath when you are standing on a mountain. That being said philosophers and scientist just keep playing jenga.
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than the ideas people who dont do philosophy have*
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" - based deleuze
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Less dumb than whole liberal/neoliberal economic theory.
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... and one can sell packages of lessons on the Pre-Socratics on every street corner.
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