Metaphysics dissolved. Because who needs it?

Philosophy as a Way of Life
8 min readFeb 24, 2022
[image: David Hume portrait by David Martin, chirnsidecommongood.org]

Take your time to read and digest the following quote. It is one of the most important bits of critical philosophy you’ll ever read:

“All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, relations of ideas, and matters of fact. Of the first kind are the sciences of Geometry, Algebra, and Arithmetic … [which are] discoverable by the mere operation of…

Philosophy as a Way of Life

by Massimo Pigliucci. Practical philosophy, science, pseudoscience & good reasoning. Complete index of articles at https://massimopigliucci.org/essays/