The Questions · the practitioner · reliance
Do you believe it, or just like the idea of it?
It is a comfortable thing to agree with a philosophy. The test is what you did the day agreeing with it cost you something.
The line is reliance, not knowledge.
What this settles
Which turns a question about what you know into a question about what you have staked. Nothing about holding a position is decided by how well you can state it.
Not this question
What is a scholar?
Also in this footing, and a different question. That one defines the position. This one hands you the test and asks you to run it on yourself.
Also asked as
- So who's disqualified, and on what ground?
- Is it a philosopher's page, or a scholar's draft of one?
- So who's disqualified, and on what ground? Is it a philosopher's page, or a scholar's draft of one?
Where this is worked out
The Recipe You Never Cook
Do You Believe It, or Just Like the Idea of It?
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The four words
Philosophy, the observer, the scholar, the philosopher — what each one is, what each one was, and the single axis that separates them. 6 of the 7 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.
- Is your favorite artist secretly a philosopher?walked
- What is a philosopher?walked
- What is a scholar?walked
- What is an observer?walked
- What is philosophy?walked
- What are the roles, and what separates them?answered, not written up