RE: A Lesson in the Practicality of Philosophy I Learned Today
September 27, 2014 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2014 at 1:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 27, 2014 at 11:09 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: In no way did I mean to imply that I devalue philosophy in general. I'm simply wondering if certain philosophical issues that seem reoccurring throughout history and more importantly, quite often have led or continue to lead to vexing disagreement, might really be considered a huge waste of time and thought; and in avoiding such buzzkills in the future, we might determine the meaningfulness of the idea at hand by its usefulness.Yeah, well...GIGO, right? We've been engineering useless, vexing, and or deleterious shit all the while as well...of course. So how useful is either approach? I don't know....shall we ask a philosopher?
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