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anonytrary
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How to Be a Stoic (2016)
Being stoic is overrated. Much prefer when we actually talk about ideas and don't just sit there mysteriously.
albatruss
on June 16, 2021
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The article concerns philosophers who loved talking about ideas, not the colloquial usage of the word stoic.
Trasmatta
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That's not what stoicism is at all.
vitiral
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Be sure to use capital S when talking about the philosophy. The dictionary definition and the philosophy seem to be not actually related, inversely related in many places in fact
dataduck
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That speaks volumes about the people who write the dictionaries.
ByteJockey
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All of the major dictionaries are descriptivist. They describe how people are using words, they do not try to control how words are used.
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