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Old 07-23-2007   #64 (permalink)
jan
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Default Re: What practical use is philosophy?

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Originally Posted by papasmurf View Post
Useful for a physical task.
What you are doing is essentially asking if you can use a "verb" or a "noun" to build a car. It's a pointless and useless question. It's not thought provoking, it's not an interesting or clever question at all.

No, philosophy isn't directly used for physical tasks.

You should have spent the time between 1990 and now simply looking philosophy up in books. Then you wouldn't have to keep asking the same pointless question over and over.

There are (minor) aspects of philosophy which can be used for practical problem solving (like I said, they do cover logic). But physical construction? No.
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