philosophical wallpaper

Philosophical wallpaper is a derogatory term which refers to philosophical discussions which go to great lengths to define and understand terms and nevertheless fail in making them sufficiently robust to support the arguments in which they apply them.

Philosophical Babel

Submitted by jhwierenga on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 10:06

Ever since writing has been developed, philosophers have written philosophical works. Although many such works are impeccably argued, it must be observed that philosophers rarely agree. Words can be used with equal alacrity to argue that God exists and that He cannot possibly exist, that everything can be known and that nothing can be known, that it is essential to be good and that we should move beyond good and evil, that words are fundamentally meaningful and that words are meaningless.