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Dismissing someone else’s work as “illegitimate” when you haven’t reworked a single idea yourself isn’t critique: it’s just opting out of the conversation while pretending you’re above it.P.S.: for you; the brain’s prefrontal cortex literally relies on pattern‑integration, not invention from scratch.
And if you’d really absorbed thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Hume, or Leibniz, you’d know that reworking older metaphysical frameworks is literally how intellectual progress happens. Every major philosopher in that era built on ancient ideas — they didn’t sneer at people for revisiting them.
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I was thinking the same thing ...