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EducatorBig6648 t1_j42t2pv wrote

Reply to comment by bumharmony in Philosophy has never been the detached pursuit of truth. It’s always been deeply invested in its own cultural perspective. by IAI_Admin

"It is like an engine that takes you to where the journey should begin..."

"Should" is a myth, it never exists outside our imagination. Hume didn't think far enough. There is no "ought". The universe has no preferences.

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Embarrassed_Honey606 t1_j4u1mv2 wrote

You keep spamming this everywhere in this subreddit: Please define „myth“.

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j4u2zee wrote

A myth is a fiction believed (in the past or present) by a large number of people to be a non-fiction.

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Embarrassed_Honey606 t1_j4u3b8a wrote

So you wouldn‘t agree with the definitons in e.g., Merriam-Webster?

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j4u4sng wrote

Depends on if I have good enough reason to disagree with it. Definitions are after all just aids to aid our communicating with eachother. Example: The definition for the Sun, the Moon and the stars used to all include "Orbits the Earth.".

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Embarrassed_Honey606 t1_j4u5rqv wrote

Yeah, I expected that. Someone else wasted his time trying to reason with you about your „refutation“ of dictionaries already, I won‘t make the same mistake. Thanks for your answer though.

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j4uezqh wrote

You're welcome. I'm curious how you imagine the history of dictionaries, though, if you think negatively of what I've said about them.

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