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[Kriminal99]

I feel like minimalism is an important product of epistemology. Meaning that in order to be able to understand our surroundings, we must assign to the definitions of ideas the normal context in which they appear.

It is a more general form of what makes science, math and even simple logic useful tools.

Science deals with objects and finding all properties of those objects so that we can better determine how they interact with other things. Math and simple logic deal with simple ideas that retain a minimalist definition because it is obvious to append them with additional information would change their essence.

Ideas like honesty and even infinity are different because they complex enough that people can begin to append additional information on to them.

If I define honesty as "what people aren't when they knowingly fail to provide correct and useful information that someone needs to act upon".

When you collect a large number of such contextual definitions, philosophical matters become trivial and as precise as mathematics.

According to this reasoning, I wouldn't spend time reading a thread where philosophical issues were being referred to metaphorically with all kinds of made up formulas etc...

I am not writing this to be antagonistic. I don't like it when people give others the idea that philosophy is some necessarily arcane investigation that all but the most intellectual people are barred from. It isn't. It is something that everyone needs to study and understand so that the efficiency of the human race can be increased.