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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Philosophy is fine and all but we can't forget that from a practical standpoint, all this philosophizing is useless. We can't live our day to day lives operating under the belief that the material world doesn't exist and using The Problem Of Knowledge as a way to dismiss empirical evidence by stating that we can't be sure if the material world even exist is impractical and useless. Remember: Philosophy is completely useless. The only value you will find in it is the development of critical thinking skills.

Just imagine if a murdered caught red handed could get away scoot free by just saying "Hey, you can prove the material world exist, therefore you can prove the victim ever existed!"

[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago

You clearly ignored the several times I said in my comment about how while I know it's not necessarily true, I act in the empirical world based off of the working knowledge that it is.

Also, philosophy is not useless.