I do agree that a philosophy that doesn't spend its time making shit up serves a largely negative function, so can't survive as an independent discipline — Snakes Alive
The start of conceptually coherent, self-consistent, clearly stated speculation (i.e. making up shite) perhaps. (Don't ask for examples or exemplars – that's for another thread.) You're just channeling a cranky Lord Kelvin's 'end of physics', y'know... Anyway, where would scientific or historical 'conjectures' be without speculation (such as Feyerabend's "anything goes" context of discovery)?Analytic philosophy marked the end of speculative philosophy; the demise of making shite up. — Banno
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