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-{{a|work|}}The hoary old chestnut that underpins {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}’s radical, brilliant theory of , and succinctly describes what pragmatic people find so excruciating about academic philosophy.
+{{a|work|}}The hoary old chestnut that underpins {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}’s radical, [[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions|brilliant theory]] and succinctly describes what pragmatic people find so excruciating about academic [[philosophy]].
 {{Quote|''Ask a silly question, and get a silly answer.''}}
-If you read latter-day philosophical whizz-kid {{author|William MacAskill}}’s book {{br|What We Owe The Future}} one question you will certainly ask yourself, though it isn’t so much silly as rueful, is: “why did I just do that do myself and how will I get those hours of my life back?”
+If you read latter-day philosophical whizz-kid {{author|William MacAskill}}’s book {{br|What We Owe The Future}}, a question you will certainly ask yourself, though it isn’t so much silly as ''rueful'', is: “why did I just do that do myself and how will I get those hours of my life back?”
-The serious point — advanced by Kuhn — is that the boundaries of an intellectual discipline, [[power structure]], [[narrative]], [[paradigm]] — call it what you will — frame and condition validity of a question as much as they do any answer. If you find yourself getting silly answers, the problem may lie in your question.
+The serious point — advanced by Kuhn — is that the boundaries of an intellectual discipline, [[power structure]], [[narrative]], [[paradigm]] — call it what you will — frame and condition the questions you may ask as much as any answers it provides. If you find yourself getting silly answers, the problem may lie in your question.
 Hence, paradoxes: if your discipline is (as analytical philosophy is) riven with [[paradox]]es, this is not so much a sign that you have hit upon an eternal conundrum, but that you are barking up the wrong tree.