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Originally Posted by papasmurf  In my everydday life where I have to make decisions often very quickly, or to carry out practial tasks I can see no use for philosophy. My decisions are based on the real life experience of myself and others. My decisions are not based on some esoteric musings of a philosopher. (Some of whose musings are very suspect due to them in some cases suffering from brain rotting sexually transmitted disease.) |
Do you see any jump in reasoning here?
(1) I have no need for X
(2) therefore, no one has a need for X, in any circumstance
In order to show the uselessness of academic philosophy, you really need to establish that no person needs to develop skills in debate, or that some other discipline teaches this skill in greater detail.
Edit: isn't it a bit ironic that you are debating the usefulness of debate?
