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Anonymous Wed Jan 4 19:24:53 2017 No.8928949 [Reply] [Original]

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n02/derek-parfit/why-anything-why-this

>appeals to analogies
>dwells on the history of philosophy rather than the ideas themselves, which is also implicitly appealing to authority
>too much of a charlatan to acknowledge the limitations of reason
>too much of a charlatan to acknowledge that the space of unfalsifiable ideas is infinitely large
>simply regurgitates highly cited views and tries to name-drop terms that package up trivial ideas

>philosophers

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