Isn't the text "Don't answer questions unless you have the specific expertise to do so" completely opposite to the "innate knowledge of the soul" of Plato, the Platonic epistemology?

No, I'm not saying that "learning is impossible", but that "we all have the basic structures to do philosophy, independently of our philosophical background baggage in the formal institutions that custody the knowledge for money, and so, our suposed expertise in most of the topics".

If you're saying that we tend to have the minimal capacity for reason that would allow us to do research in the field and this means we're all experts, it seems obvious that this isn't true! After all, we all have the capacity to do mathematics, physics, psychometrics, and to research Bohmian mechanics, yet it would be impossible to say that everyone is a research when it comes to the topic of what an electron is doing in subjects of interest in Bohmian mechanics. Certainly we agree that only an expert, like a philosopher, and tell us very much about this electron and we wouldn't allow simply anyone to answer questions about this topic.

As you already do, I appeal to common sense and experience, instead of sentences of books (which reminds me to what the priests do with the Bibble, in a dogmatic way).

Haha, I've never heard of this Bibble, but you're right that philosophers don't appeal to mere sentences of books. You're quite perceptive!

By the way, I say this because I know an account that was banned in this subreddit for "not having the expertise", appearently, and it's funny that you study the "hippies" of other times, while you ban them in prestigious subreddits like this one.

I don't think there's any evidence that that's ever happened, but it's good to practice to creativity for speculation and I hope you refine it. Have a good day!

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