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Re:What do you think of my startup idea? on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @11:07PM (#60138)
its called digg.com and about a dozen other sites I've seen. You could even build most of this in Ning for free, right now.

My point being that I don't see anything in there that really evolves the social content sharing platform in any significant way.

Re:How to Do Philosophy on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @05:08PM (#60004)
> But she did have an effect on people's lives.

But isn't that the point? Its the only reason I have an interest in philosophy.

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> didn't have an effect on later developments in philosophy

And in a sense, Paul was arguing against that in this essay. When you think about it, it was exactly this effect that has lead Philosophy to remain so stagnant for so many years.