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You forgot to include "Endlessly write justifications of how important philosophy is" and "Misunderstand the abstracts of scientific papers, then write essays b
by jff 9y ago
You forgot to include "Endlessly write justifications of how important philosophy is" and "Misunderstand the abstracts of scientific papers, then write essays based on those misunderstandings"
- ewjordan 9y agoThe scientific misunderstandings are extremely offensive at times, too: a philosophy professor teaching metaphysics at Yale a long while back once offered a completely serious argument against relativity of simultaneity by snapping his right fingers, then snapping his left, and saying "whatever the physicists want to say, one of those snaps obviously happened before the other". When I objected that physicists would agree with him, because light cones yadda yadda, he cut me off because I was "getting into the weeds" (isn't that the point?!!?). The next topic was one vs many, where he cherry picked just enough offhand quantum mechanical commentary from Wheeler and Feynman to argue that maybe it was all just one electron going back and forth through time, and that was about when I lost all faith in the field. That said, metaphysics is pretty much the worst of philosophy, because it has been so thoroughly rendered useless by all that we've actually learned about the physical world. Other subfields are substantially more interesting and less underinformed.
- planteen 9y agoWow. The worst part is that Einstein's original paper is quite clearly written and works through though experiments itself.
- msla 9y agoSpecial Relativity isn't even hard. It's literally geometry and trigonometry. True, it's done on a hyperbolic space, as opposed to a Euclidean, but that's the only difference. Everything follows from that simple foundation. https://www.av8n.com/physics/spacetime-welcome.htm https://www.av8n.com/physics/spacetime-welcome.htm