[Hank Kerchief]

holding your hand and walking you through Hume

Good grief, I saw through hume decades ago, and your still caught in that trap? Whewell, and every other philosopher who accepted the a priori superstition were complete failures in the field of epistemology (the very worst, of course is Kant). Mill is so full of errors one hardly knows where to begin.

If you wanted to impress me with your knowledge of philosophers you should have picked Aristotle, Bacon (very sadly, he made major contributions to philosophy most do not even know exist), John Locke, and Ayn Rand.

I did not learn philosophy from philosophers. By the time I was nineteen, I had already developed a system of logic that I only later discovered Boole had already developed. (When I was nineteen no one was yet aware of how significant boolean algebra would be in the field of computers, which was not yet a field.) By the time I was thirty, my philosophy was fully developed. My study of philosophers has only been to discover how the principles I know are true were articulated by others. What I discovered is that most philosophers were mostly wrong, and that the field of philosophy has all but been destroyed by philosophers.

I am guessing you are an amateur philosopher, because you do exhibit flashes of clear thought. Most professional philosopher, that is, those who "teach" philosophy in some capacity, have completely surrendered their minds to one form of irrationality or another.

Like most amateurs, you have been entertaining, but not very enlightening, of course.

Hank

[tpaine]

"Most professional philosopher, that is, those who "teach" philosophy in some capacity, have completely surrendered their minds to one form of irrationality or another."
-HC-


Well said, and most of those here that have been taught by the 'pros' have succumed to that same irrational bafflegab BS.
They mistake great volumes of words, cleverly fashioned to proclaim that their version of ~is~, -- really is 'is', -- to be some profound demonstration of intellect.

The joke babblefish type machines are occasionally making more 'common sense' stringing together words than some of those posting here. - I'd guess it's the thousand monkey effect, finally becoming possible..

[cornelis]

I am guessing you are an amateur philosopher

Ah, Hank. This is FR. You don't need to guess 'round here.

[unspun]

By the time I was thirty, my philosophy was fully developed.

Is that good?

Shucks, if we all could only say that... a philosophy in every pot. ;-`

[general_re]

Okay. Like I said, "on the understanding that you'll simply dismiss it if it proves inconvenient to you." People have been thinking about these things for thousands of years, but you know better than to listen to them.

Hey, if that works for you, go for it. But don't think you can make everyone else in the world ignore the holes that were poked in your philosophy long before you ever formulated it.