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David_Gerard comments on Guarding Against the Postmodernist Failure Mode - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: AspiringRationalist 08 July 2014 01:34AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 08 July 2014 04:48:03PM *  2 points [-]

We're talking here specifically about the amateur philosophy, presented with neologisms as if it's original thought, when it simply isn't. You seem to be saying that it's valuable if EY writes about it but not if professional philosophers do - surely that's not what you mean?