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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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How is "progress" achieved in the field of philosophy?
gpt
That there is such a thing as progress and, in particular, progress within philosophy is, in itself, a philosophical contention, to which many would disagree or would have nuanced views about. Wittgenstein would probably think that any philosophical progress that doesn't outright dissolve philosophy is progress in making language traps (excepting probably logic), or Benjamin would say that progress is a catastrophe.

In at least the most basic of senses, progress in philosophy is, at the minimum, achieved by making the philosophical canon (the set of works that are accepted as philosophy and placed within a hierarchy of importance) bigger. That, at least, is more or less indisputable (that there is more philosophy as time advances). If then you want to call this progress qualitative or merely quantitative, positive or negative, you're gonna find literature going to all sides of this.