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Did Vattimo employ the philosophy of'weak thought' in political or academic applications?
Academic applications only
Both academic and political applications
Political applications only
Neither
Answer
Vattimo employed his philosophy of weak thought in both academic and political applications. In his academic work, he argued that the traditional philosophical concepts of truth and being were no longer tenable, and that we should instead adopt a more "weak" or "postmodern" approach to thinking.
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