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Comment author: lukeprog 13 February 2013 04:47:33PM 0 points [-]

I've been reading parts of Pseudo-Problems: How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done.

It introduced me to this nice Boltzman quote:

If therefore philosophy were to succeed in creating a system such that... it stood out clearly when a question is not justified, so that the drive towards asking it would gradually die away, [then] philosophy would become worthy of the name of queen of the sciences.