ludvikus here are you lucaas totally incapable of saying something nice about me at that kangeroo court you do not care for me yes or no you do not think they can get that so called community ban on me yes or no you want to be alone here and you find me in the way yes or no do you think that i'm disruptive to the community whatever that means yes or no do you believe there is an editor's war yes or no do you want peace yes or no do you want to help ft yes or no i'm still assuming good faith now here's some philosophy it seems there's no alternative user quiddity but to shout it the history of philosophy is punctuated by revolts against the practices of previous philosophers and by attempts to transform philosophy into a science a discipline in which universally recognized decision procedures are available for testing phil osophical theses in descartes in kant in hegel in husserl in wittgenstein s trac tatus and again in wittgenstein s phil osophical investigations one finds the same disgust at the spectacle of philosophers quarreling endlessly over the same issues the proposed remedy for this situation typically consists in adopting a new method for example the method of clear and distinct ideas outlined in descartes regulae kant s transcendental method husserl s bracketing the early wittgen stein s attempt to exhibit the meaningless ness of traditional philosophical theses by due attention to logical form and the later wittgenstein s attempt to exhibit the point lessness of these theses by diagnosing the causes of their having being propounded in all of these revolts the aim of the revo lutionary is to replace opinion with knowl edge and to propose as the proper mean ing of philosophy the accomplishment of some finite task by applying a certain set of mythological directions linguistic turn recent essays in philosophical method ed intro by richard rorty yours truly