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"let us calculate"

Joined January 2023
What if the correspondence is like โ€œDear Seth, Our plans to use Plato to trick a future President into invading Iraq are proceeding as we have foreseen.โ€
Ronna Burger and Svetozar Minkov have asked me to share this news: "We've learned that The Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Seth Benardete, currently listed on Amazon with Nov. 3, 2026 publication date, will be available by early December."
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[guy who doesnโ€™t know what arbitrarily means]: you need to read Adorno
[guy who doesnโ€™t know what arbitrarily means]: you donโ€™t need to read books
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is a correct usage of โ€œarbitrarilyโ€ to describe something as large with little limitation or restraint. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrariโ€ฆ
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Getting a lot of wordcel cope from this shaperotator ragebait
[guy who doesnโ€™t know what arbitrarily means]: you donโ€™t need to read books
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is a correct usage of โ€œarbitrarilyโ€ to describe something as large with little limitation or restraint. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrariโ€ฆ
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I am actually looking for some so please lmk but are there any broadly "anti-AI" journalists/writers who aren't stupid/know what they're talking about technically etc? Unfortunately the entire niche just seems captured by morons repeating cliches w/o much thought.
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Everyday I see more and more the importance of Upholding @analytichegel Thought on the Maths Question
Replying to @profleonn
Math is a left-coded field, and leftists enjoy homosexuality, pornography, and furrydom. Most normal straight guys go for practical quantitative fields instead, whereas the completely abstract nature of math attracts the crazies
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We must purge logical positivism and all analytic philosophy from the Democratic party
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We must purge logical positivism and all analytic philosophy from the Democratic party
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It's hard to read stuff like this and not come away thinking Quine was right about modality lol
Dr. James Anderson, argument from the laws of logic โ€‹"We argue that the laws of logic are necessarily true propositions, and that means that they must exist in every possible world. So we argue that propositions are real entities; they do in fact exist, and necessarily true propositions must exist in every possible world. What is more, propositions are essentially thoughts; they are mental entities. So at this point, when you put it together, we have the argument that the laws of logic are necessarily existent thoughts. And if there are necessarily existent thoughts, then there must be a necessarily existent mind, because you cannot have thoughts without a mind. But, of course, this mind cannot be a human mind, because human minds are contingent. So if there's a necessarily existent mind, well, there must be a person, and this person must not be a material being, but a spiritual being. And so we've got now an argument for a necessarily existent personal, spiritual beingโ€”in other words, an argument for God." youtube.com/live/rrn65O8W6Lwโ€ฆ
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Anyone who unironically advocates for epistemicism as a solution to the Sorites paradox will be hung, drawn and quartered under my dictatorship.
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Yesterdayโ€™s election was a comprehensive triumph for continental philosophy and devastating defeat for analytic philosophy. Submit to your new overlord, Judith HUSSEIN Butler.
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I also really dislike the implication that the academy is the obvious place for the life of contemplation. It seems like an insanely stressful grind not dissimilar to big law or finance in the first place
For some reason a bunch of peopleโ€˜s takeaway was that I think philosophy PhDs should get finance degrees instead. Very odd lol
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On Denoting is the most hilerite paper I've ever read. Symbolic language is, until further investigation, evil
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Black Circle #artbots #malevich
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Replying to @goosecalculus
Once had dinner with Hintikka, I suspect a result of the professor who invited us thinking my girlfriend at the time was hot. Fun fact, he had a bust of himself in his house.
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The extent of interactions between non-philosophical fields and LP makes it at an odd choice for uselessness compared to what analytic philosophy has evolved into and how insular it has become. It is difficult to imagine a Brecht or Meyer Schapiro engaging w/ modern AP.
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It's Friday! What are you reading this weekend?
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Hegel first advocated realism; and Hegel unfortunately was about at the average degree of German correctness in logic.
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It's called we do a little deflationism folks, we do a little deflationism.
Kill all Plotinus
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not sure if there's a faker position than "the continental philosophy guy that reviles all of analytic philosophy EXCEPT Wittgenstein he's cool"
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I think everyone involved has a better idea of what most undergraduate education looks like right now. The idea that you could reliably get a cohort to read an entire book in any capacity, let alone over a week is completely alien to my experience as an undergrad.
Itโ€™s so cool that nobody involved seems to be aware of how pathetic this is. โ€œYou have to actually read a whole book every week, show up to class, and canโ€™t use Phone.โ€
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I have spent my entire degree explaining 20 page readings to people. The only classes I've done where people reliably did the readings were more STEM-y logic subjects.
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