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Polish miners' blood boosts search for new Covid-19 drug(msn.com)
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Aristotle was right about mathematics after all (2014)(aeon.co)
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Stanisław Leśniewski: rethinking the philosophy of mathematics [pdf](biblio.ugent.be)
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Turing Award Laureates sign letter to support the candidacy of Joe Biden(nytimes.com)
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Stanisław Leśniewski: rethinking the philosophy of mathematics(academia.edu)
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Wooden Language(en.wikipedia.org)
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On the Trail of the Knights Templar and Holy Grail in Western Poland(cnn.com)
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Meyer Lansky(en.wikipedia.org)
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by danielam 6y ago
When I was a child, I was in the supermarket with my mother and apparently I was repeating some Polish phrase containing the infinitive “to be”. The Polish equivalent is “być” which sounds like “bitch”. From what I’ve been told, it drew som
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by danielam 6y ago
In this vein, "The Free Press" by Hilaire Belloc[0]. [0] https://archive.org/details/freepress00bellgoog/page/n12/mod...
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Google, Apple unveil built-in Covid-19 exposure notifications(nypost.com)
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The particle collection that fancied itself a physicist(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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Moe Dalitz(en.wikipedia.org)
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New York City is dead forever(nypost.com)
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by danielam 6y ago
St. Stanisław of Kraków[0] is a similar figure. [0] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14246a.htm
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by danielam 6y ago
I just posted a link[0] with some of Friedman's response to what's going on. TLDR: aside from Belarus' geopolitical importance and predicament, it sounds like what's going on is largely a matter of speculation, though th
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The Geopolitics of the Belarusian Election(geopoliticalfutures.com)
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by danielam 6y ago
"We want our beliefs to be true, but if we don’t even know what they mean, we’re in trouble. A single sentence might be true in some sense, false in some other sense, and meaningless in a third. If you believe 'St. Trinian’s is a
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by danielam 6y ago
Oh, Ludwig Feuerbach. If I restrict myself to the topic at hand, then I have to say I don't see how he manages to construe the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (CEN) as intrinsically opposed to contemplation or speculative knowledge—sci
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by danielam 6y ago
Don't follow the part about polytheism. I would say, if anything, polytheism is a hindrance to the development of science. For one, the capriciousness of the gods makes nature arbitrary and unpredictable. FWIW, Stanley Jaki argues some
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by danielam 6y ago
In this context, these symbols are conventional signs taken to refer to meanings that are not themselves. Concepts are apprehensions of form, or we might say "meanings", the what-it-is-to-be of the given thing. When I write &quot
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Our Marcusan Moment(firstthings.com)
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by danielam 6y ago
You're trying to reduce abstraction to statistical pattern classification, but that doesn't work because statistical measures are inherently bounded in generality, indeterminate and ambiguous while my concept of, say, triangularit
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by danielam 6y ago
I am indeed arguing for the Aristotelian position. A lot of mind/brain talk is thrown around without any deep appreciation of the metaphysical presumptions being made, much less the metaphysical consequences of those presumptions. >
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by danielam 6y ago
Also, you can buy a couple of cheap wall outlet timers and plug a couple of lamps in to create the appearance that someone’s home.
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by danielam 6y ago
An essential feature of abstract things is that they do not exist independently and in their own right. For example, this chair or that man (whose name is John) are concrete objects. However, the concepts "chair" and "man
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by danielam 6y ago
> What got my goat was the implication that complex systems like the mind and the brain or any other complex system aren’t a “science” because it somehow isn’t pure enough/reduced enough. That wasn't the implication, but perhap
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by danielam 6y ago
Shape::TRIANGLE, 8 or Color::RED aren't concepts. They're merely symbols. In principle, you will find them encoded in some way under a microscope (as some arrangement of physical states, though it will depend on the particular phy
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by danielam 6y ago
Okay, so intentionality is essential to information. Let's take your example of the pixels on your screen. There is nothing intrinsic to those pixels or that arrangement of pixels that points to the state of your brain. That doesn&#x27
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by danielam 6y ago
> But abstract things can supervene on the physical. Information, for example, is abstract, but it supervenes on some physical stuff. Granted, information is not identical to any particular instantiation, but the abstract pattern can be

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