danielam

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Thomistic Science and the Knowledge of Principles(soundcloud.com)
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How Do We Know Essences? Sense Knowledge and Abstraction(soundcloud.com)
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Truth as Transcendental: Ontological Foundations(soundcloud.com)
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by danielam 5y ago
One element of a feature set that may be used as part of a broader forensic analysis of writing samples...or for obfuscating the origin of one's writing.
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by danielam 5y ago
This statement is very unsettling. Are you claiming that any discussion that someone or some group deems "outdated", "conventional" or "unsophisticated deserves to be suppressed on those grounds, and that those who
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Open Letter of Solidarity with the University of Sussex from UK Philosophers(openlettertosussexfromukphilosophers.wordpress.com)
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Intellectualization(en.wikipedia.org)
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Why Science cannot be Value-Free (2008) [pdf](kul.pl)
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by danielam 5y ago
> This "verbal, intuitive character" is its biggest flaw: it makes grammar look like it is logic, while it is not. I don't know if I would say it makes grammar look like logic. Rather, it holds that grammar has a logical
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by danielam 5y ago
This was Wittgenstein's first publication, I believe, and it shows. As someone once wrote, not Wittgenstein's finest hour. > It does not even allow, strictly speaking, to take "Horse is an animal" and derive "a h
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by danielam 5y ago
I think you're reading things into what I wrote. W.r.t. value, the only point I was making is that there is no fact/value dichotomy. It doesn't follow that I am therefore arguing that one cannot make value judgements. On the
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by danielam 5y ago
No, I understood you. What I'm saying is that a) your concern for bad motives is separate from the question of whether science if value-laden (which it is), and b) the question of "what is the correct aim and motivation for scienc
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by danielam 5y ago
The problem of correct motivation (and here I would argue understanding is the aim of science, not fact collection per se ) is a separate problem, but it, too, is a matter of value judgement (what is the correct aim and motivation for sc
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by danielam 5y ago
Related article: "Why Science cannot be Value-Free" https://www.kul.pl/files/57/wydzial/lekka-kowalik/Lekka-Kowa... (HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28697385
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Why Science cannot be Value-Free (2008) [pdf](kul.pl)
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by danielam 5y ago
> This is exactly the source of the trouble. Hearing scientists project their value system onto everybody else destroys their credibility. > sticking to the facts and avoiding ideology and values I think a few different things are bei
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by danielam 5y ago
Josef Pieper has written a couple of books ("Leisure: the Basis of Culture" and "Happiness and Contemplation") about solitude and contemplation that are worth a look.
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by danielam 5y ago
In very specific contexts, computational law can make sense. My company, for example ( https://droit.tech/ ), has had success in the financial regulation space.
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by danielam 5y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. For example, I use a very simple barcode scanning app[0] that exports to CSV. [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reading-list-book-tracker/id12...
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EU roadmap wrt vaccine-preventable diseases (2019) [pdf](ec.europa.eu)
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Urban Formal Order: Space, Anti-Space, Junkspace(stitcher.com)
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Members of Congress and Their Staff Are Exempt from Biden's Vaccine Mandate(newsweek.com)
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Make-Believe Matter(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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Ioannidis on the Politicization of Science(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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Biden Orders Vaccine-or-Test Mandate for Businesses with 100 or More Workers(forbes.com)
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University Vaccine Mandates Violate Medical Ethics(wsj.com)
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Confucius on Our Times(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Early Child Cognitive Development(medrxiv.org)
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H.R.4980 – Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure vaccination for exit/entry(congress.gov)
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Thrasymachus(iep.utm.edu)
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