(September 28, 2017 at 4:30 pm)Mathilda Wrote: It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you're good at philosophy because you think that you don't have to apply it. You just end up with arguments that mean nothing.
Precisely!
We can argue the philosophy underlying the Harry Potter universe (from the perspective of within the Harry Potter universe). We can deduce and infer all sorts of things philosophically about a fictitious world, but that doesn't mean any of it is verifiable or demonstrable or real in any literal sense.
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