/lit/ - Literature

>>4746795
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>>2074908
>thinks that Hegel's ideas weren't consistent with reality when that was all they really were and consequently they've aged terribly
>thinks deduction is inherently wrong when it's actually the most precise logic operation in the book.
>doesn't hermeneutics with any subtlety. of course, an idea has to be consistent with the interpretative methods that construed it.

>>2052933
>It's not "inscrutable"; it isn't saying anything of much substance
Substantiate.

>low–end school professors who have been out of the publishing game since they got tenure in the 80s
Substantiate

>they review nearly every worthwhile book in the field each year. Look at what is coming out. I'm sorry, but the philosophical tradition is coming back.
In good faith and for good reasons? Substantiate.

>real problems lurking behind the structures.
Examples?

>Philosophy is /not/ applied linguistics, such a statement is ridiculous in the extreme, and limits the discipline to a few schools from the last ninety years, without understanding that they rest on a prior, non–linguistic tradition.
This is not a Wittgensteinian poseur stance, this is standard thought on the subject, i.e. not that the only way to have a meta stance is to be meta on language, but that philosophy has been a long tradition of word or concept definers, ultimately a task grounded on language.

>>2048125
>Frankly that's all I feel obliged to respond to because it shows this whole Lewontin's Fallacy is a crock of shit, the basis and keystone of your argument.

typah, apologies, i need to proofread

>>2010621

Woah, Beckett!
Way to be a dick.

>real intellectuals
>reading fiction