prof reading philosophy his entire life, "here he makes the obvious fatal error of not agreeing with my naive assumptions"
[person reading philosophy for the first time] "Ahh...here he makes the obvious fatal error of not agreeing with my naive assumptions."
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philosophy might aptly be described as a war against previous assumptions.
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uneasy echoes of every person in my lower-level undergrad classes
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have to say, I was frustrated 'till I read Quine
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did you mean: [person encountering an expert of any sort for the first time] ?
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doesn't this apply equally to professional philosophers?
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because the standard method in philosophy seems to be intuition, which is shit
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[contentedly blows bubbles from tobacco pipe]
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