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If you redefine words and ignore logic - you can salvage anything, sure.

I'm not sure what's the point tho. If you start with abandoning logic - you cannot later return back to using it. Starting with 0==1 you can prove anything.

If Bible gets away with contradictions - you can't then accept the conclusions and use logic on them. The moment you abandoned logic you are left without it forever. Full-blown postmodernism. Nothing is true and everything is true.

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So by your standard, the works of Nietzsche are worthless because he was a strident anti-rationalist, and his works of literature contain many (mostly purposeful) contradictions?

Philosophy is only useful for generating questions anyway, so the harm is minimized - but yes, it's not something you should base your worldview on.

Rationalism, which you seem to be an ardent supporter of, is a strain of philosophy. We all have some epistemological system we live by, so discrediting philosophy on its whole is not an option.

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