You can't really study philosophers, only cargo cult them. By the time you're ready to study you'll likely have rediscovered their ideas.
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Though once you’ve discovered their ideas, reading them is a good way to discover systematic/articulate language for expressing those.
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I generally prefer my own inarticulate and unsystematic bumbling by that point
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Kinda/not really, at least if it's like math. You need to be 1 inferential step away, but not 0.


