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Manbadger t1_j7qi2wa wrote

What am I missing if I state that philosophy is the politics of semantics?

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slickwombat t1_j7rbe8p wrote

The same thing I'm missing if I say that philosophy is the religion of semiotics: an explanation of what that means and ideally an argument for why it ought to be accepted.

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CortezsCoffers t1_j870qx6 wrote

Well, for starters you would be missing the fourth element needed to complete the analogy. Philosophy is to semantics as politics is to... what, exactly?

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