Deutsch defines bad philosophy not as false philosophy but as philosophy that actively prevents the growth of knowledge, by denying that progress is possible, desirable or real, and he holds that only progress opposes it: if progress stops, bad philosophy becomes true and returns.

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  Bad philosophy is philosophy that denies the possibility, desirability, or existence of progress. And progress is the only effective way of opposing bad philosophy. If progress cannot continue indefinitely, bad philosophy will inevitably come again into the ascendancy.

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