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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Feb 2019

    You can tell what used booksellers think of philosophy from the fact that they usually shelve it next to religion and the occult.

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      1. Wilson  🇺🇸‏ @WilsonCusack 21 Feb 2019
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        Or does this tweet tell what you think of religion and the occult :)

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      2. Karthik Madathil‏ @kmadathil 21 Feb 2019
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        It need only mean that large groups of people tend to be interested in a n>1 subset of these three.

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      3.  🤖 🦉CyberOwl  🦉 🤖‏ @Supreme_Owl_FTW 21 Feb 2019
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        Those would be the ones who should touch neither.

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      1. Tim Spalding‏ @librarythingtim 21 Feb 2019
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        You can tell what they think of philosophy by the bilge they shelve under it.

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      1. Brendan Beirne‏ @brendanbeirne 21 Feb 2019
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        New book stores as well. I've been watching the philosophy section at B&N shrink over the years as encroachments from Metaphysics and the like eat up shelf real estate.

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      1. Benjamin Jones‏ @abqpythonista 21 Feb 2019
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        I think it's more an effect of (a.) Usually, those are three smaller book sections and (b.) all three topics are in the lower Dewey decimal numbers, so booksellers are used to seeing them together in libraries. My local puts philosophy next to Mathematics.

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      2. unpopular niche account‏ @elharaty 21 Feb 2019
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        Dewey decimal class 100 is philosophy and mythology 200 is religion.

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      3. Bryan Atwood‏ @bryanatwood 21 Feb 2019
        Replying to @elharaty @paulg

        ^^ Underrated comment

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      1. Gordon M‏ @gordonm64 21 Feb 2019
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        Or is that just the dang old alphabet.

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