I have to admit I share Paul Graham's view:
Paul Graham
Wittgenstein is popularly credited with the idea that most philosophical controversies are due to confusions over language. I'm not sure how much credit to give him. I suspect a lot of people realized this, but reacted simply by not studying philosophy
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The most valuable way to approach the current philosophical tradition may be ... to study it as an example of reason gone wrong.
... instead of denouncing philosophy, most people who suspected it was a waste of time just studied other things.
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Because philosophy's flaws turned away the sort of people who might have corrected them, they tended to be self-perpetuating.