wiresnips comments on Which parts of philosophy are worth studying from a pragmatic perspective? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wiresnips 01 October 2010 03:22:29PM 0 points [-]

I have a guess:

Let's say that studying philosophy is gratifying in and of itself. That would make the study of philosophy an intrinsic good. There might be some parts of philosophy whose study yields an instrumental good. These would be the "pragmatic" parts.