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bumharmony t1_j3xlvzi wrote

Academic philosophy usually stops where philosophy could only actually start. It is like an engine that takes you to where the journey should begin but it stops working at that point.

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j42t2pv wrote

"It is like an engine that takes you to where the journey should begin..."

"Should" is a myth, it never exists outside our imagination. Hume didn't think far enough. There is no "ought". The universe has no preferences.

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Embarrassed_Honey606 t1_j4u1mv2 wrote

You keep spamming this everywhere in this subreddit: Please define „myth“.

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j4u2zee wrote

A myth is a fiction believed (in the past or present) by a large number of people to be a non-fiction.

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Embarrassed_Honey606 t1_j4u3b8a wrote

So you wouldn‘t agree with the definitons in e.g., Merriam-Webster?

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j4u4sng wrote

Depends on if I have good enough reason to disagree with it. Definitions are after all just aids to aid our communicating with eachother. Example: The definition for the Sun, the Moon and the stars used to all include "Orbits the Earth.".

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Embarrassed_Honey606 t1_j4u5rqv wrote

Yeah, I expected that. Someone else wasted his time trying to reason with you about your „refutation“ of dictionaries already, I won‘t make the same mistake. Thanks for your answer though.

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j4uezqh wrote

You're welcome. I'm curious how you imagine the history of dictionaries, though, if you think negatively of what I've said about them.

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