hen comments on Normativity and Meta-Philosophy - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Wei_Dai 23 April 2013 08:35PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 April 2013 10:41:37PM *  0 points [-]

practitioners of philosophy (what an oxymoron...)

I guess this is just an offhand comment, but I missed your meaning here and the point seems interesting. Could you explain?

Comment author: shminux 23 April 2013 11:33:16PM 0 points [-]

It was, but if you insist. Don't read too much into it. Practice is something of an antithesis to theory, and theorizing is all philosophy does, since it's not something that can be experimentally tested. Once some part of it is, it becomes an aforementioned spawn.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 April 2013 12:11:30AM 0 points [-]

Thanks.