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People who say philosophy is useless usually still want to do philosophy, they just don't want to read books or have their ideas critiqued by people who have read books.

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A self-described rationalist once told me not only that philosophy is pointless because it's been supplanted by empiricism, but also that he didn't "believe in" the empirical study of people (e.g. psychology) as it's not rational enough. Not sure how we're supposed to know about people then, but ok