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Fuck that. This is the exact attitude that makes philosophy irrelevant. The epistemic flip was a mistake, but even apart from that - why can't it be the opposite? Let everyone swing for the fences. Bring back the most insane speculative metaphysics possible. Then catch what sticks. Much creative theorizing that goes on in astronomy and other fields is groundless, ad hoc and rich. It gets to do it because it's "science", which is nothing more than a term of institutional approbation. We're still in a Positivist hangover, but the only consistent rule is that anything goes.