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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8179757" data-attributes="member: 6906155">You can't study something you can't test.If you can't test it, you can say anything at all, and no one can prove it's wrong.But there is plenty of solid, evidence based research done in the humanities, and plenty of bad science.Who decides if a philosopher is important? Other philosophers. Then they tell the lesser mortals what is true and what is false, without a jot of evidence to back it up.I don't know, maybe this Wittgenstein did have some sensible things to say, but I have never studied philosophy, so I have no idea. But I have found that people who name-drop philosophers do so in order to try an make themselves look clever, not because they know anything. So since you mention "image", I am automatically inclined to think that someone who name-drops philosophers in a way that assumes you know what they are talking about is a pretentious prat, not someone worth listening to.</blockquote>