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The main problem isn't subjectiveness IMO - many philosophers would already object there and ask what knowledge that isn't subjective. But rather the risk of too many overly broad questions. To be ...
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Lundin
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2024-02-22T07:58:20Z (8 months ago)
The main problem isn't subjectiveness IMO - many philosophers would already object there and ask what knowledge that isn't subjective. But rather the risk of too many overly broad questions. To be reasonable, questions must have a somewhat specific scope (like on the rest of the Q&A sites).- If you just toss a broad question out there such as "what is the meaning of life?", then there are hundreds of different philosophy branches all with their own take on it. And answers can't reasonably cover all of those.
- However, if every question would be _enforced_ to poll for answers given a certain philosophy/philosopher, then maybe that's needlessly narrow-minded and too academic.
- I can also easily see how debates and argumentation back and forth should have a prominent place on a philosophy site. Perhaps have a special "Discussions" category for such? Where questions need not be answerable or have one true answer. Codidact is already far more suitable for this kind of setup than SE, given categories and threaded comments. The only concern I have there is that it would probably require a lot of attention from moderators.
- The main problem isn't subjectiveness IMO - many philosophers would already object there and ask what knowledge that isn't subjective. But rather the risk of too many overly broad questions. To be reasonable, questions must have a somewhat specific scope (like on the rest of the Q&A sites). I think some of the posted questions in the Incubator struggle with this indeed and they are perhaps not good examples of questions suitable for the site.
- If you just toss a broad question out there such as "what is the meaning of life?", then there are hundreds of different philosophy branches all with their own take on it. And answers can't reasonably cover all of those.
- However, if every question would be _enforced_ to poll for answers given a certain philosophy/philosopher, then maybe that's needlessly narrow-minded and too academic.
- I can also easily see how debates and argumentation back and forth should have a prominent place on a philosophy site. Perhaps have a special "Discussions" category for such? Where questions need not be answerable or have one true answer. Codidact is already far more suitable for this kind of setup than SE, given categories and threaded comments. The only concern I have there is that it would probably require a lot of attention from moderators.
#1: Initial revision
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Lundin
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2024-02-22T07:53:06Z (8 months ago)
The main problem isn't subjectiveness IMO - many philosophers would already object there and ask what knowledge that isn't subjective. But rather the risk of too many overly broad questions. To be reasonable, questions must have a somewhat specific scope (like on the rest of the Q&A sites). If you just toss a broad question out there such as "what is the meaning of life?", then there are hundreds of different philosophy branches all with their own take on it. And answers can't reasonably cover all of those. However, if every question would be _enforced_ to poll for answers given a certain philosophy/philosopher, then maybe that's needlessly narrow-minded and too academic. I can also easily see how debates and argumentation back and forth should have a prominent place on a philosophy site. Perhaps have a special "Discussions" category for such? Where questions need not be answerable or have one true answer. Codidact is already far more suitable for this kind of setup than SE, given categories and threaded comments. The only concern I have there is that it would probably require a lot of attention from moderators.