(November 15, 2013 at 11:55 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote:
I have to say I agree. However, I think Mini gets worked up when bullshit gets tossed into the proverbial fan, and at times he makes blanketing statements driven by emotion. I doubt very seriously that he's talking about philosophy as a whole, but more specifically, as he said, "philosophers". Those that by motive of profession, must force themselves to fill voids of intellectual silence with superficially profound dung.
I'm sure if you asked him, "How do you know that it's nonsense?", He'll have no problem engaging you in an epistemological discussion.
I hope so.
No doubt, some philosophers have said and continue to say bat shit crazy things. Then again, people tend to do that regardless of profession. And that of course doesn't make them wrong or inconsequential mumbo-jumbo. I mean, Aristotle was wrong about a looottt of things (and right about a lot of things too), yet we recognize his brilliance and intellectual contributions, almost unmatched in history by any single individual (maybe Plato and Newton). Mathematics shows that non-Euclidian geometry is possible... ah forget it, you see where I'm going.TL;DR I agree. :p
