polymathwannabe comments on Guarding Against the Postmodernist Failure Mode - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 08 July 2014 02:53:06PM 1 point [-]

LW is the opposite of postmodernism. Plato's condemnation of sophists ("the art of contradiction making, descended from an insincere kind of conceited mimicry, of the semblance-making breed, derived from image making, distinguished as portion, not divine but human, of production, that presents, a shadow play of words") applies perfectly to postmodernists, who are just the umpteenth incarnation of the sophist virus.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 July 2014 06:19:17PM 0 points [-]

So what's Analytical Philosophy.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 09 July 2014 08:15:33PM 1 point [-]

Analytical philosophy is the serious one.