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Are we to regard Ethics as irrelevant? Logic? Aesthetics? Epistemology? Metaphysics? These are the five branches of philosophy.

I majored in Computer Science and have a minor in Philosophy. I consider philosophy the most important element of my life, and the lives of everyone else, often unknowingly. I see philosophy all the time on Hacker News and elsewhere. What do you call debates over law, for instance? Are those scientific? No, those are philosophy. So much of what humans do is philosophy that to suggest they do not participate in it because they aren't talking in "academic" terms is simply inaccurate.



> Ethics as irrelevant?

Having it or arguing about it?

> Logic?

Depends on what kind of logic you mean. There are multiple different entities covered by that word, some of which are not philosophy.

And for the rest: Arguments that never end produce what?


They produce our civilization. Right now you are speaking philosophically. Why bother?




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