Wait what? Wouldn't that make the first philosophy you encounter a perma-crippling infection rather than an inoculation?https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/810281385852276736 …
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Replying to @vgr
When learning philosophy one is simultaneously exposed to many philosophies, none of which is then individually first.
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Replying to @robinhanson
well, I'd argue that most are in fact exposed to just one philosophy -- that of parents -- that then constrains future breadth
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Replying to @vgr
Sure, in 1 sense of word "philosophy". I was talking mainly about academic philosophy.
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Replying to @robinhanson
there is no way to separate the two. Even the most ivory tower philosophy traditions have roots in specific cultural milieus
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Replying to @vgr
No way to completely separate, but surely the distinction is useful.
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Replying to @robinhanson
Yes *if* you can show there is a source of philosophy of = or > power to lived experience, itself an old philosophy problem
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Replying to @vgr @robinhanson
I'm amused noticing that the academic is being pragmatic, while the business theorist is insisting on conceptual purity.
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Why are the two at odds? We make pragmatic use of conceptually pure things all the time, like numbers :D
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