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19 Post author: lukeprog 05 January 2013 11:25AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 January 2013 11:35:00PM 9 points [-]

I'll say it again: there is no point in criticising philosophy unless you have (1) a better way of (2) answering the same questions.

This is probably false. Sometimes you know you have a problem for quite a while before you have a solution.