Just yesterday, a friend commented on the exceptionally high quality of the comments I get by posting on this website. Of your many good points, these are my favorite.
Likewise, LW has a culture of ‘we love systematicity and grand Theories of Everything!’ combined with the high level of skepticism and fox-ishness encouraged in modern science.
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This maybe points at an underlying reason that academic philosophy hasn’t converged on more right answers: some of those answers require more technical ability than is typically expected in analytic philosophy.
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…unlike most recent philosophical heroes, LW’s heroes were irreverent and status-blind enough to create something closer to a clean break with the errors of past philosophy, keeping the good while thoroughly shunning and stigmatizing the clearly-bad stuff.
Just yesterday, a friend commented on the exceptionally high quality of the comments I get by posting on this website. Of your many good points, these are my favorite.