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by undershirt 7d ago
I was only addressing your argument. If fallibilism leads to a contradiction then it doesn't work to undermine all agnostic arguments against the actual reality of fields. My warning is that science becomes something like a 'scien
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by undershirt 8d ago
Fallibilism seems to smuggle a claim of certainty about how we can't be certain about anything, which leads to a performative contradiction when brought up in an argument where people are trying to arrive at certainty.
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by undershirt 8d ago
I think so. Are you familiar with epistemology and how assumptions can be formally justified?
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by undershirt 9d ago
Sure. Just making sure people understand that the "scientific definition of real" is based on a metaphysical assumption that real = works. It is very hard to remember this since philosophy of science is not taught in school.
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by undershirt 9d ago
We cant even verify if these fields are real though. It is an ordered mythology for making predictions that work. If I have a machine that can reproduce the footprints of an animal no one has ever seen, I have not discovered that animal. (T
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by undershirt 11d ago
Cmd+space, cmd+1 to search apps only
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by undershirt 20d ago
> Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.
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by undershirt 20d ago
it's an AI comment
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by undershirt 1mo ago
yes galileo was forced to recant heliocentricism to the roman catholic church, because they had gone insane. also consider the dogmatic commitment that scientism has to methodological naturalism. this is the religious spirit of science toda
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by undershirt 1mo ago
I’ll never understand how GEB was using math, art, and music to explain consciousness (and Hofstadter himself still thinks no one understood it), but Nagel and Newman did a great job explaining why logic as a mechanical thing has only a ten
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by undershirt 2mo ago
any intersection with val.town use cases?
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by undershirt 3mo ago
allowing functions to treat nil arguments as empty versions of their expected types
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by undershirt 3mo ago
i would love to see a version of this for the antikythera
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by undershirt 4mo ago
have you written about this anywhere, or hosting any examples?
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by undershirt 4mo ago
that's one way to combine three plus signs!
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by undershirt 4mo ago
I don't even know what science is anymore.
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by undershirt 9mo ago
Most of what I know about Catholicism I learned after becoming Orthodox. I've been seeing more Catholics here, which makes sense, as the history of Western thought is rooted in post-schism scholasticism, which eventually birthed ration
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by undershirt 9mo ago
Braid (2008)
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by undershirt 9mo ago
sorry, I was tempted to draw a connection between the coincidence of dustified steel recorded during a magnetic disturbance and the locations of megalithic sites, but I’m not committed to their connection. I find it fun to hypothesize but
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by undershirt 9mo ago
I think debates are interesting because it’s obvious that people are temporarily imprisoning any devastating arguments within their higher sense that something about it is wrong. The attempt to “rationalize” and discover what this higher in
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by undershirt 9mo ago
Maybe a “heresy” is simply that which is valid but not sound. The ecumenical councils were in some ways the means by which they imprisoned and cut away what is valid (according to some presuppositions) to leave only what is sound (according
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by undershirt 9mo ago
The differences between East and Rome are very substantive in my mind. The Holy Spirit operates in the Church differently (decentralized vs centralized), and they experience God differently (directly vs indirectly), and they even shape the
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by undershirt 9mo ago
But consider how each sect defines unity and the criterion for uniting to others. In my mind, to simplify: Evangelicals: we must agree to a common *subset* of beliefs Catholics: we must agree to allow contradictory belief systems
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by undershirt 10mo ago
> mortality is fundamentally ingrained in not just the human condition, but the fabric of our universe church fathers say that creation fell because of the fall of man > Without the finality of death, life seems to lose its meaning. N
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by undershirt 10mo ago
> "interpretations"... which are different from what the law literally says. We have to remember that the letter and spirit of the law can grow apart over time, and loopholes are often gamed before that naturally happens anyway
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by undershirt 11mo ago
The St Nicholas Orthodox church sat at the base of the Twin Towers, because it was there for 100 years and they wouldn't take the money to rebuild it elsewhere. They probably served their last Divine Liturgy there on Sunday 9/9&#x
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by undershirt 11mo ago
I was on a break at work reading a lot about 9/11 for some reason. Went back to fix an easy bug where our timestamps were printing wrong dates (milliseconds vs seconds) so I became curious what dates would show up if I added zeros in f
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by undershirt 11mo ago
Cool link though, thanks. So the worst historical event of the information age happened right at the billenium.
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by undershirt 11mo ago
9/11 happened 1 trillion milliseconds after the unix epoch.
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by undershirt 1y ago
> Trust but verify What does this mean?

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