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by dlkf 1921 days ago
> It's essentially the same argument as "everything is philosophy" or "everything is politics", technically true but only in a vacuous sense.

I'm not convinced that we need to reach for the everything-is-philosophy hammer in order to make a reasonable case that we are doing philosophy when we argue that, for example:

> Words like 'truth', 'beauty', 'justice' are vague, imprecise meshes of meaning, so much that making precise statements about them is extremely problematic even conceptually.