Is there a philosopher/writer you wish was right, but is

>>8698683
I'm not sure you understand either term.

>>8698683
Plato, so much that I at one point even convinced myself that I could convince myself that he was right by just consistently acting as if it were so. Unfortunately, the world around me didn't play along.

>>8698683
All of them

>>8699510

Explain math without platonic realism boy-o

Jeff Vogel, head of the Scorched Earth Party. he believes there are few problems that can't be solved through the correct application of a lead pipe to the head.

i think he's right, but i also think there are too many heads and not enough lead pipes for this philosophy to work.

>>8699517
We don't need an analysis of math anywhere near as much as we need proofs in math.

I wish Sheldrake was right

>>8699517
Field's nominalist project? Not that I think it's perfect, but I think it's heading in the right direction. That's mostly because I think Quine/Putnam's indispensability argument for realism is a load of shit.

Aldous Huxley's door of perception would be cool but it' reads like a cryptic nudge to psychedelics rather than anything substantially interesting or enlightening.

>>8701917
I read this as a teen but as far as I can remember it is literally just rattling on about mescaline.

Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Plato

Nietzsche.
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