No I didn't I answered it. It's only a problem for someone if they desire something they're not getting. It depends on what individual people desire, what they prefer, etc. Nothing is universally a problem or not a problem. For me, philosophy has constant application to practical things, and that's the case for many philosophers, but that's not necessarily something easy to understand without a sufficient background in philosophy to even understand just what it is and isn't.
As I added above before you saw it:I am not interested in their general competence, I am interested in their particular competence in their particular field of know-how: Electrical problems.
"And of course you might judge that they did a fine job because insofar as you know, everything seems to be working, but maybe they were incompetent and something they did is going to wind up causing huge problems down the road. Unless you know much about electrical work, you don't have a good basis for making an assessment beyond the most superficial, immediate elements that you can relate to in your limited knowledge."
A good example is the tenets of logical positivism. It turned out that logical positivism couldn't meet its own criteria for meaning, testability/confirmation, etc., with a result that there are no more logical positivists per se (that is, per the strict criteria set up for it a la the Vienna Circle).What does "Philosophy going wrong in practice" look like?
No musical genre or subgenre emerges whole cloth out of nothing. They all gradually evolve from earlier stuff. By the time there's clearly something that counts as jazz music, there's earlier stuff one has to be versed in to be competent playing the music in question. Again, this is just like natural languages (it just develops more quickly than natural languages). And of course, by the time there were folks like Louis Armstrong on the scene, jazz had already been developing for a couple decades, and Louis Armstrong was first a factor over 100 years ago already.How is that even possible? How does one even begin to develop a vocabulary about "jazz music" when Jazz music doesn't exist yet?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:31 pm The musicians they worked with. Again, they wouldn't have gotten the gig without the right background, because it's not possible to have the skills, vocabulary, etc. without that background. That's no more possible than it would be for you to speak Chinese fluently, like a native, etc. without a sufficient background/immersion in Chinese.
If your response to this is longer/brings up even more issues--we're already on at least four different topics here, I'm cutting it way down again. I hate when posts keep getting longer and longer.