I think philosophy is just identifying things with one another and making distinctions between things and everything else is something else.
I think philosophy is just… giving meaning to things and thoughts.
I think philosophy is thinking really hard about things that people don’t think really hard about.
Like what?
i think philosophical knowledge is every type of insightful knowledge which is not scientific.
…another type of intuition.
Smears, like asking why questions more than even a three year old does. Philosophers never grew up mentally anyway. There is only so many whys before you have to make a decisin about stuff. That’s what I think anyway.
Philosophy, being constrained by language, is more in the business of boxing things and then connecting different boxes with strings. I think its approach to reality is quite limited.
Philosophy is for the insolent.
lets make a new language!!
Philosophy isn’t any more constrained by language than any other subject of study. And since it is a study of language itself, and only that, the constraints seem appropriate. Philosophy is the study of the meaning of statements. What that means is both simpler and more complex than it may first appear.
FAUST!
SMEARS!
Did you forget your names? 
:-"
Where you been man? Hopefully not in prison or anything…
Just netless. It’s a long story. My GF threw me out of the house, I stayed with a friend for a while (who didn’t have internet access) then I moved to a different part of Maine to take a job and my landlady promised me a hookup (to the internet) and had considerable trouble getting it done and our connection at work didn’t (work) and finally both hookups happened at the same time and my landlady did hook me up with some good homegrown and the time requirements at work eased and…and I missed you so I came back.
More or less.
My faith in the good will of the universe has been restored.
He is returned to us a philosopher all at once!
Daddy is back – yaaaaaay!
(Seriously though, welcome back.)
P.S. Your children are running loose around here.
Smears - Glad I could be of assistance.
zeus - I was thinking about coming back little by little, but fell victim to Premature Articulation.
realun - You realise, of course, that you have just broken the confidentiality clause in the child-support agreement. What would have been your next check is now headed to another trailer park.