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Are there false or illegitimate philosophies, and if so, who's to say which ones are valid and which are invalid?
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December 3, 2009

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Richard Heck
December 13, 2009 (changed December 13, 2009) Permalink

Yes, and me.

I'm not sure what the worry is here. I think it's clear that there are some philosophical views that are plainly wrong. There may be some truth in them somewhere, but research over the years has shown that the view is wrong. (Examples: Plato's theory of forms; Hobbes's theory of government.) So who says they're wrong? Well, the people who have done the research mentioned. This is no different from science. There are scientific theories that are wrong, and the people who say so are the scientists who do the work.

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