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That's how I view most philosophical ideas such as truth, justice, good, evil, etc.  While you can study the relationships between such ideas endlessly, as you can the relationships between the Chinese categories, you do not have much hope of getting to the root explanations, as we have in biology, because the unifying basis is not obvious in these far descended ideas.  Starting with such ideas is a pretty clear [[wikipedia:Skyhook_(concept)#Skyhooks_and_cranes|skyhook]].  These ideas need to be explained from much simpler, preferably positivist ideas rooted in evolution, anthropology, game theory, etc.
 
That's how I view most philosophical ideas such as truth, justice, good, evil, etc.  While you can study the relationships between such ideas endlessly, as you can the relationships between the Chinese categories, you do not have much hope of getting to the root explanations, as we have in biology, because the unifying basis is not obvious in these far descended ideas.  Starting with such ideas is a pretty clear [[wikipedia:Skyhook_(concept)#Skyhooks_and_cranes|skyhook]].  These ideas need to be explained from much simpler, preferably positivist ideas rooted in evolution, anthropology, game theory, etc.
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"[...] it takes a philosopher to catch a philosopher."  David Stove
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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

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