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Philosophy, information and seafaring

Tim Gorichanaz
May 13, 2019
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Philosophy, information and seafaring

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What is philosophy? What do philosophers do? Otto Neurath put it this way:

We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and dri…

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