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(Assumptions that do not match reality.)
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{{DES | des = A great deal of philosophy is grossly misleading from the very start.}}
 
{{DES | des = A great deal of philosophy is grossly misleading from the very start.}}
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=== Most philosophy has to be bullshit.===
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Simply because of the contradictions within the vast corpus of philosophy.  Unlike science, which has good systems for discouraging the bad and converging on the good, philosophy continues to promote millennia-old lies and errors.  And there is no shortage of philosophers lamenting this fact about their practice:
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"[...] it takes a philosopher to catch a philosopher."  John Dewey, "Why Study Philosophy?"  1893
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"Philosophy, take it by and large, has in fact been simply the anthropocentrism of the educated and intelligent, as religion is the anthropocentrism of the others." David Stove
  
 
=== Assumptions that do not match reality. ===
 
=== Assumptions that do not match reality. ===
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=== Fallacy of hidden assumption of an object. ===
 
=== Fallacy of hidden assumption of an object. ===
 
"I have a right."  Against whom?  (much more to put here.)
 
"I have a right."  Against whom?  (much more to put here.)
 
"[...] it takes a philosopher to catch a philosopher."  John Dewey, "Why Study Philosophy?"  1893
 
 
"Philosophy, take it by and large, has in fact been simply the anthropocentrism of the educated and intelligent, as religion is the anthropocentrism of the others." David Stove
 

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