2013-06-15
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Hello everyone, it's Steven West.
This is Philosophize This.
What is philosophy?
You know, there's always a little bit of irony when you ask that question,
because it's the exact type of question that philosophers ask that's impossible to answer.
I mean, they do it all the time.
Philosophers pick some arbitrary thing that nobody really cares about and try to get to the bottom of it.
And it always seems like they're trying to sound like Professor Snape's really pretentious brother.
Like, uh, what is a photograph?
Polta?
Is it a representation of the world or merely a representation of a representation of the world?