What is Philosopher?
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The best kind of person. A person that just thinks about things, which then enables other people to do things.
Carpenter: I built a house.
Doctor: I saved a woman's life.
Scientist: I've designed the missle defense system our country uses.
Dumbass: I only measure direct contributions, and I fail to understand that it is possible for something to indirectly benefit society. I'm the kind of person that thinks that rebounds and assists are useless in basketball.
Philosopher: I am interested in a discipline that has given birth to democracy and other political theories, the natural sciences, psychology, and more recently, cognitive science. Without the work conducted in philosophy, a monarch could destroy the house that a carpenter built without any compensation, and the knowledge necessary to save a person's life or to build a missile defense system would have not likely occurred.
I use logic to reach conclusions that are either necessary, contingent, or contradictory (impossible). Computers and robotics would be impossible without my contributions to propositional calculus, first-order logic, temporal logic, and modal logic.
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One who spends his life pondering questions that no one has asked, which have no answers, for use in debates of no meaning.
Refutation of the Nonexistence of Impossibility has successfully refuted empiricism, nihilism, subjectivism, constructivism, pantheism, intrinsicism, solipsism, objectivism, nominalism, conventionalism, materialism, accidentalism, irrationalism, emotionalism, representationalism, phenomenalism, agnosticism, intuitionism, theism, skepticism, esotericism, probabilism, rationalism, foundationalism, coherentism, atheism, relativism, mysticism, altruism, idealism, fatalism, hedonism, humanism, inhumanism, pragmatism, sensualism, utilitarianism, egoism, anarchism, animism, determinism, behaviorism, capitalism, transcendentalism, dualism, collectivism, cannibalism, axhilism, libertarianism, dogmatism, egalitarianism, immoralism, individualism, existentialism, interpretevism, logicism, meliorism, multiculturalism, reductionism, secularism, socialism, stoicism, and aestheticism.
You can negate all existence and meaning through philosophy. Of course, you can argue that philosophical reasoning is limited and refutes itself, but that is also a philosophical argument.
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Someone who makes a living out of thinking. What they essentially do is create "constructs" and boundaries for what can and cannot be thought or what is or what is not acceptable behaviour.
Their job is to make a construct that is acceptable to the largest number of people so that we don't go nuts killing each other.
That's the BEST they can do. And usually they suck at it because there's always a good deal of people smart enough not to fall for that bullshit.
It's arguable that if there were no philosophers to conjure up bullshit "social contracts," we'd all learn to get along fairly peacefully anyhow. In reality no rules for life do exist and we all get along pretty fucking well.
So essentially they are a bunch of (usually old) wankers blowing wind up each other's asses.
David Hume, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and a medley of other asshats can be considered "Philosophers".
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A study of though of which there are 2 Arch Types,
Realist Philosophers: Asks not why, but how
Bull****er philosopher: Spends all day asking.....whyyyyyyy?
There may exist a counter balance of the 2 but these findings are inconclusive.
"Confucious was a realist philosopher, you are a bull****er"
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Someone who wasted the money their parents paid to get them through college.
I majored in philosophy, would like fries with that?
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The worst kind of person. The person that doesn't do anything, but just thinks about things.
Carpenter: I built a house.
Doctor: I saved a woman's life.
Scientist: I've designed the missle defense system our country uses.
Philosopher: I've decided I do exist.
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1. In ancient Greece, it refers to one who attends symposiums, in the guise of thinking, to drink with friends, speak of pederasty, and generally makes a fool of himself.
In Plato's symposium, it was less of a scholarly discussion, and more of a drinking party where they talked about pederasty.
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As far as philosophers go, Socrates was a drunk old pederast.
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