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Comment author: magfrump 01 May 2013 05:11:47PM 2 points [-]

perhaps non-experts in [philosophy as a whole] avoid that particular subfield precisely because they think it is a fraud.

This was my default expectation beforehand, and still is. People form their opinions first and then talk about justifying them. Making it more complicated than this doesn't help explain the data.

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