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>I have to ask: how does one write the "hello world" of philosophy? And please don't cite me a manual.

Dubito ergo cogito ergo sum. I'm sure you could write that out in a faintly amusing way using 'import' or something.

Your second sentence is right a lot of the time, but certainly not always. It's just that certain, foundation-shaking ideas are treated exceptionally and independently, or as not relevant to the very practice of thinking. As if the contents of the mind and the stomach (etc) vary independently.