How to fail at Philosophy
- by Pixel
There is no rest from now on.
My friend’s girlfriend said today ((I use the word ‘today’ as a literary device. I was thinking about her saying this today, she actually said it a few months ago. It takes me half a year to process most comments. They’re not even dating anymore. Sorry if this bothers you.)) that it was silly for people to fail a philosophy class because it was just philosophy. “Nobody’s wrong in philosophy.” To the uninitiated, this might seem a plausible claim. But it’s not. A more accurate claim would be: “Nobody’s right in philosophy.” To illustrate how you could be wrong in philosophy, I’ve made a list of instances in which a person practicing philosophy would fail:
- Contradict yourself
- Have an argument that doesn’t logically follow from the premises
- Assume something that has not been sufficiently defended or supported
- Appeal to intuitions that nobody but you has
- Get the empirical facts wrong
- Misrepresent the opposite position
- Pick a topic/thesis nobody cares about
- Pick a topic/thesis that has already been extensively covered +
- Not have any new ideas
- Miss the time-span/page-rage requested
Guess how many of those apply to me?
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There is no rest from now on. My friend’s girlfriend said today ((I use the word ‘today’ as a literary device. I was thinking about her saying this today, she actually said it a few months ago. It takes me half a year to process most comments. They’re not even dating anymore. Sorry if this…
Guessing that you just got a paper back with a lot of red on it… My guess is 10.
-Rob
Poor Pixel 🙁
I guess 9 of them,
7 and 8 cannot apply at the same time.