[mattmanser]

It's worth reading pg's reasons for saying this here:

http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

Without that you're not going to understand why he wrote that paragraph and you'll also hopefully see that he's got meat behind his reasoning and that this is an offhand comment referring back to that essay.

As someone who also studied philosophy and now can look back, I think he got it right.

It also makes this entire thread moot.