DiscourseFan

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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
Plato can't be summarized, there are no conclusions to any of the arguments, just endless arguments. That's why he's so great, he always leaves the question open, there is always room for greater understanding.
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
It is debatable if that is the case in traditional Platonism, the evidence for artificial forms comes from a single epistle (the 7th) that is arguably fabricated. I've read some of this epistle in the original, and stylistically it is
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
>Obviously, that doesn't refute platonism's alternatives, but in the words of a friend, it would really suck if he spent his career studying something that was entirely fictional, so he better be a platonist. Remember, fiction
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I would disagree, simply because math deals with a fairly restricted sphere of inquiry, whereas philosophy might ask questions about things that mathematical logic, being restricted axiomatically, can't necessarily touch upon. But in t
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
I mentioned this in another comment, but Platonism only is concerned with how humans are able to communicate with each other using shared concepts, if the "entities" exist as you say, most people who study philosophy would agree t
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
I have a great respect for this author, but I do have to note that the debate of "constructivism" vs. "platonism" doesn't really exist in Philosophy per se, because it relies on a kind of basic misunderstanding of P
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
Well if it is then shouldn't we try to change it? Personally, I don't want to live in a dystopia...
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
I know a lot of people who've worked in University administration and they weren't bad people at all, they genuinely cared about students and wanted to improve their livelihoods and the society around them. Unfortunately they were
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
Who is going to teach anyone in your equation, if everything was about money there wouldn't be professors to educate the STEM majors. There is more to building a society than balancing the checkbooks.
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
Well at least on Wikipedia you can check those things.
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
I'm done with even calling myself gay or straight or anything, the moment you do you are surrounded by insufferable people.
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
The difference between ChatGPT and Wikipedia is that Wikipedia actually cites its sources. Also ChatGPT is only knowledgeable about general things, but even there it makes errors. It's basically a very complex scraping algorithm, the m
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
The great irony that paid subscription services like HBOMax will simply remove content they don't care to have on their platforms any longer, whereas myriad obscure independent creators on Youtube have published entire webseries over a
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
The question is if its appropriate to compare logical machines, which are built on things secondary, a-posteriori to the primary aspects of human cognition--that is to say logic--with the primary, biological, a-priori aspects of cognition w
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by DiscourseFan 4y ago
There are people whose mothers died during childbirth, but babies literally can't take care of themselves, they need to be constantly attended to and the original moment of trauma is always the moment they are weaned. Surrogate mothers
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Many in the SciTech world who would shrink at even the thought of legitimizing Psychoanalysis should know that Freud only developed his psychological theory after trying and failing to create an entirely physical explanation for cognitive p