/lit/ - Literature

>>17156591
>implying metaphysics are even worth reading

>>16943736
Based

>>16799332
>pre-existent ways of doing philosophy
I get what you mean, I just think philosophy is about the truth, but like, the ultimate truth
As I've had to say to my gf when I showed her this, no philosopher did some really abstract metaphysics or epistemology and started living out there life as if they're not real - as, well, you know, you'd die...
I just think a philosophers job is to find truth, even if its irrelevant to normal peoples lives (which in my view is like 99% of philosophy, how many people could carry out their ethical philosophy without being imprisoned??)
I dont think people shouldn't look past truth dilemmas and stop doing what they love, which could be political philosophy for example, but as a study we need to appreciate the fact that we're about truth truth, not scientist truth (educated guesses based on observation) and not belittle those that are still interested in that sort of stuff.

>sidetone
Seriously Wittgenstein? you're going to say that all metaphysics is pointless? I'd really like to see how you changed my granddad's views on language and changed his life...

B-based?

>everything is objects

>>15336557
There isn't a "good reason" for anything, that's internalized sky daddy thinking. There's no big guy in the clouds deciding that things mean something, they just are. Sky wizard believers came up with things of value over the past 5000 years, mostly by coincidence. Now that empiricism and science have disproved the god of the gaps and Aristotlean physics, we have developed into a more reasonable society based on evidence, and evidence shows that there is no metaphysical meaning to things and that we basically spent most of history wasting our time. There's no inherent meaning to existence, do what you want as long as it doesn't interfere with other people's pursuit of happiness.

What are some iconic retroactive refutations in history?
e.g. A retroactively refuted B's Y in his X.

Is the study of metaphysics just an ultra-long example of the sunk cost fallacy?

>>11752594
I'm sorry I don't have even the /lit/ project in pdf.
But I'd like to know if any anon went through the trouble of downloading all the pdfs and put it in a folder, that would be awesome.