Traditional philosophy seems attractive because it appears as difficult as math but broader in scope
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Unclear writing about big ideas can seem attractive to inexperienced but ambitious students 1 0 2and
It's hard to distinguish something that's hard to understand due to unclear writing from something that's hard to understand due to complex ideas 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
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