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by playdead 3y ago
Aristotle, well-known for thinking about things for only 10 minutes.
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by playdead 5y ago
Interesting. Yeah, I grew up in the 90s, so in addition to tamagotchi and pokemon, I became aware at some point about the Japanese mob.
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by playdead 5y ago
I didn't know all the male-leaning words tbh, but it's not hard to have an educated guess that "neodymium" is probably a chemical element, thermister is probably something in physics related to thermodynamics, that a ter
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by playdead 5y ago
I think you need to read more carefully. For example, he explicitly anticipates and puts aside some questions you ask: "In this paper, we will not be concerned with postmodernist critiques of the idea of objective truth nor with skepti
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by playdead 5y ago
> If you multiply two numbers together, shouldn’t the result be greater than each part? I appreciate the metaphor, but... multiplication is not repeated addition.
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by playdead 5y ago
What tools did you use to build it?
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by playdead 5y ago
> don't really make us use math differently Even is we suppose what you're saying is correct — the goal isn't really to change how we use mathematics, but to understand what math is in a deeper explanatory sense. If that
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by playdead 5y ago
Happy to see analytic philosophy trending on HN
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by playdead 5y ago
> I still think Plato invented Socrates. No, he was an actual historical person. Plato of course wrote a more literary depiction of him, not a direct transcript of his conversations. > If Socrates was so wise, why did he get himself k
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by playdead 5y ago
I'm unsure if you've read this novel, but the translation "was to remember" actually works well here, and was probably a deliberate choice. The cycles of time are a major theme in the story.
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by playdead 5y ago
Skip this one. An article written by someone who doesn't understand math, logic, or philosophy, and thinks stamping his foot and saying "general relativity" is the height of explanatory sophistication.
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by playdead 6y ago
Software people with philosophy backgrounds (there are a lot of us!) will be quick to note that Grice did not intend these to be understood as rules of thumb for regular people. But if it gets ordinary citizens interested in philosophy of l
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by playdead 6y ago
As philosophers keep saying, over and over, the trolley "problem" is just a thought experiment in normative ethics about different types of moral judgment — it's not an actual problem demanding solutions or recommended behavi
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by playdead 6y ago
Go Big Green
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by playdead 6y ago
It's only really a Quine if it has a taste for desert landscapes