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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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Anecdotally, my engagement with philosophy resources, philosophers, and philosophy enthusiasts hasn't been supportive of this claim.
In particular, I have found them both incurious about math/logic (outside of specifically the parts labelled 'logic' as far as they relate to rhetoric) and their verbal skills to be lacking (more specifically, their inability/unwillingness to define their terms).
Also anecdotally, I really enjoyed my philosophy and logic courses in college. But, admittedly, my professors were closely aligned with the sciences in my school. One class was even taught by two professors: one from philosophy and one from science.
Studying philosophy well, and actually learning how to do it, makes you a better thinker. Yes, just like running will make you a better runner.
However, doing it poorly, will make you worse. Lots and lots of casual consumers of philosophy dont' study it. They just read it passively and parrot it back out. Sort of like running for 200m and feeling like that is as good as running a 2km.
This just in: Study claims that studying thinking about stuff makes you better at thinking!
More news at five.
Are you implying that we shouldn't think about these things and just take them at face value?
Seems like that would promote being bad at thinking.
Ì wonder what the studies say about the party poopers that post these kinds of comments.
Nothing surprising either, I assume.
Well-deserved roast.