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Originally Posted by Skybird
But philosophy alone is just like playing solitaire. It doesn'T really lead you anywhere, ever.
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I contest that strongly.
It has lead many people many places, been the basis for governments, new
religions, new ways of thinking about science and life. It has spawned
countless works of literature, art and all manner of creative works.
All the science, math and historical studies are the result new philosophical
ideas bracing out into subjects that became independent.
Western philosophy may be out of the scope of religio-philosophical ideas like
zen, but zen if far from out of the reach of western philosophy. That is zen's
loss.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Meaning and language is less a philosophical but more or less a scientific problem.
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Many would disagree with that, both in science and in phillosophy. It is certinaly no given.