lukeprog comments on A reply to Mark Linsenmayer about philosophy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 05 January 2013 08:43:39PM 2 points [-]

I'm not quite sure what it would mean to say that "90% of philosophy should be thrown out for rationality reasons," but I probably don't endorse that statement.

Anyway, as I said in my post, philosophy isn't alone in being mostly crap, and I wouldn't want people to think I believed otherwise.

Comment author: Kawoomba 05 January 2013 09:38:21PM 1 point [-]

(Was just meaning to paraphrase "I'm generally skeptical when someone proclaims that "rationality" itself should get us to throw out 90%+ of philosophy...")