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Sat Sep 27 09:03:33 UTC 2014 <moriarty> that's the arts
Sat Sep 27 09:03:31 UTC 2014 <moriarty> when i was involved in finance, my amount of reading went up hundred-fold, sure, there was a lot of overlap, but they cover different situations, and it's a bit like chess, you read all the possible moves and what you can do from there
Sat Sep 27 09:02:21 UTC 2014 <moriarty> bounce, i said exponential, not exponent
Sat Sep 27 09:01:48 UTC 2014 <moriarty> bounce, lol what?
Sat Sep 27 09:01:24 UTC 2014 <moriarty> but the classic distinction with the liberal arts is that they tend to require an exponential effort in reading material
Sat Sep 27 09:01:09 UTC 2014 <moriarty> i don't know if any of you have ever done any humanities
Sat Sep 27 09:00:55 UTC 2014 <moriarty> no such models exist in philosophy
Sat Sep 27 09:00:46 UTC 2014 <moriarty> in science*
Sat Sep 27 09:00:42 UTC 2014 <moriarty> the problem with autistic people or my understanding of the crowd you're referring to, is that they are used to neat and concise models that exist inscience
Sat Sep 27 08:59:57 UTC 2014 <moriarty> the whole of philosophy is a continuous conversation dating back to Aristotle
Sat Sep 27 08:59:45 UTC 2014 <moriarty> lol you think Heidegger exists in isolation?
Sat Sep 27 08:59:35 UTC 2014 <xmj> plonk /ignore -replies moriarty
Sat Sep 27 08:59:34 UTC 2014 <moriarty> you think i'm joking?
Sat Sep 27 08:59:33 UTC 2014 <bounce> moriarty, don't be an ass please
Sat Sep 27 08:59:24 UTC 2014 <moriarty> and to drill down what those concepts are about precisely is to have a conversation extending to years
Sat Sep 27 08:59:09 UTC 2014 <moriarty> because every concept representable by a phrase or term in philosophy has books written supporting it
Sat Sep 27 08:58:56 UTC 2014 <moriarty> lol you mean people whose backgrounds in philosophy are as shallow as yours?
Sat Sep 27 08:57:47 UTC 2014 <moriarty> you lose the meaning actually
Sat Sep 27 08:57:45 UTC 2014 <xmj> moriarty: maybe thinking is not your best activity.
Sat Sep 27 08:57:43 UTC 2014 <moriarty> and simplifying statements would not make it easier to understand them