Damus
Andrew M. Bailey · 1w
You understand philosophy a lot better when you see it as The Inter-discipline. Why is philosophy so hard? Because it has no defined techniques, problems, established knowledge base, or ends. Why doe...
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I don't agree.

I think Western intellectuals were unwilling to accept simple an obvious truths and wanted something more "profound".

There's a real objective world outside my mind, which I can learn about through observation and experimentation.

There's no need to complicate with a bunch of bullshit.
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Neal · 1w
and you are a subject in that objective world. wrestling with that necessary relation is not “bullshit” even though it’s inherently messy to operate in “either or’s” is logically incoherent in technical terms, and retarded in rhetorical terms
Andrew M. Bailey · 1w
Which Western intellectuals do you have in mind? The ones I find most insightful would agree with you that there’s an objective world, knowable, etc.