I spent my first three years at college completing the requirements for a degree in philosophy. By the end I had learned exactly one thing: the only thing philosophy could teach me was that it couldn’t teach me anything. Socrates apparently had reached the same conclusion 2400 years previously; it was probably in the Cliff Notes. Alas my prof insisted I…
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