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Chris Sunami

Dec 5, 2017 21:29

Also this (mild language warning) friesian.com/no-shit.htm

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Mozibur Ullah

Dec 5, 2017 12:11

Balthasar Morales

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QuietThud

Nov 28, 2012 08:02

Nietzsche is a chill bro.

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Chris Sunami

Sep 24, 2014 01:53

contemplates the void

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stoicfury

Apr 7, 2012 14:27

I propose that life be defined as anything that is not dead. Problem solved! ;)

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Cerberus

Jul 25, 2013 02:04

@JosephWeissman You have aged somewhat since your last picture.

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Cerberus

Jun 19, 2013 01:24

It burns your hands!

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Dennis

Jun 19, 2013 01:06

What happened to the dead philosophy chat space I'm used to!?!?!

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user61389

Dec 17, 2015 09:28

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OrigamiRobot

Dec 5, 2012 19:48

ALL THE FLAGS

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fabianhjr

Jun 7, 2012 15:41

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Dcleve

Dec 5, 2018 00:55

@Philip Klöcking - thanks for the suggestion from Mike Sandbothe, but unfortunately it was not useful to me. the essay continually referred to tendencies, initiatives, accomplishments, and focusses of various 20th century philosophers whom I ahve not read, and tried to argue in abstract and general terms that these referenced but not described efforts were "pragmatic". After reading halfway through, and finding no actual content, I gave up.

Joseph Weissman

Mar 4, 2012 20:15

(Lisa tries to teach Bart a method to clear his mind of distraction.)
Lisa: Bart, I have a riddle for you. What's the sound of one hand clapping?
Bart: Piece of cake.
(Bart opens and closes his right fist quickly, making a sound.)
Lisa: No, Bart. It's a 3000-year-old riddle with no answer. It's supposed to clear your mind of conscious thought.
Bart: No answer? Lisa, listen up.
(Bart quickly opens and closes his fist again.)

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Philip Klöcking

Nov 26, 2018 19:49

@Dcleve: I think you are actually naturally close to the pragmatist position, i.e. the Dewey - Wittgenstein (the late) - Quine - Putnam tradition. I also think that for "clear and concise" being the maxim of analytic philosophy, the overly technical and logical considerations often push them away from readability and common sense

Philip Klöcking

Nov 26, 2018 18:57

In other words: He turns the means of the linguistic turn against the epistemological and ontological arguments that emerged from it, i.e. shows the absurdity/inconsistency/meaninglessness of purely language-theoretical arguments in epistemology and ontology - language-theoretically. The strength of his book is that he does not even pretend to be able to find a definite answer in analytical philosophy

Philip Klöcking

Nov 26, 2018 18:55

and all this in a way that is not overly abstract, but actually readable because of the irony of turning the arguments against them

Philip Klöcking

Nov 26, 2018 18:33

For Sellars, normativity is bound to semantics, not ontology

curiousdannii

Nov 22, 2018 07:30

@PhilipKlöcking I really don't get how I could meaningfully support that answer. "3 doesn't mean infinity" shouldn't need a reference. I can live with the mod notice.

Philip Klöcking

Nov 20, 2018 15:27

@Gordon: In principle exactly the gist of the whole "use chat" idea. In practice, the 20 rep threshold prevents exactly these users from making use of this possibility :/

Philip Klöcking

Nov 16, 2018 13:58

@user170039 Yeah, tends to be lonely in here, but since I proposed to visit the Symposium whenever online, I lead by example

Secret

Nov 15, 2018 06:03

Last night dream involves a strange conversation:
Guy: Is it possible to try again when you fail at a game?
Me: The issue is that this game only exists in the dream world, thus you have to be very lucky to revisit the same dream world in order to play the game again. But if you are referring to games normally, then why not, you can always pick up the game and retry, it will not suddenly disappears

Philip Klöcking

Nov 4, 2018 22:48

Bye :P

Ami

Jun 15, 2011 20:54

@Joe, the point is there may not be enough academics on the SE network to keep this site afloat

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user2334

Jun 15, 2011 20:30

@JosephSpiros Speaking as a moderator of one of the most discussion-prone SE sites (Programmers), it's important you have a clear, firm closure policy from the get-go otherwise it takes months to fix.

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mfg

Jun 15, 2011 20:25

@JosephSpiros You don't ask an astronomer a question about the sign Pisces, the pieces may be stars but in the case of many closed questions they were asking questions of a content and format not answerable by the tools of philosophy.

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Chris Sunami

Sep 10, 2014 02:05

Freedom for Plato is being freed from your desires through obedience to your higher nature

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Philip Klöcking

Jul 23, 2018 10:11

A book you might be interested in is The Myth of Disenchantment by Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm (2017)

Philip Klöcking

Jul 23, 2018 10:10

Text I am referring to can be found in translation here

stoicfury

Apr 24, 2014 19:45

Still have my 1st place MHL JV trophy on my shelf xD

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skull

Apr 28, 2018 07:23

234

Q: Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with women/people of color?

The Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming blog post says: Too many people experience Stack Overflow as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups. There have been accusations of elitism against SO since time immemorial. Basic...

s. patroller

Apr 15, 2018 06:03

in English Language & Usage, 11 hours ago, by Mitch

wander

Jan 7, 2014 10:48

Buzzing party.

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RegDwigнt

Dec 24, 2013 01:55

For a special hat, that is.

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Zane Scheepers

Feb 9, 2018 23:16

Painted Einstein Hollow Face Illusion

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H Walters

Jan 27, 2018 06:38

@MoziburUllah audiobooktreasury.com/moby-dick-herman-melville

Mozibur Ullah

Jan 16, 2018 08:24

I think it was Aristotle that eulogised the contemplative life. But it seems to me that man is made for action, rather than thinking. Though, both helps. In this world we seem to either to be pushed to one or the other.

commando

Oct 26, 2013 00:52

I shall henceforth refer to myself as a philosophy boffin

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Joseph Weissman

Dec 16, 2017 15:22

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Q: Why is writing down mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing computer code?

I have noticed that I find it far easier to write down mathematical proofs without making any mistakes, than to write down a computer program without bugs. It seems that this is something more widespread than just my experience. Most people make software bugs all the time in their programming, a...

correctness-proof mathematical-foundations philosophy

Mozibur Ullah

Dec 15, 2017 21:53

There's an excellent essay by Badiou, called the Age of Poets; there's an extract here posted by Verso books.

H Walters

Dec 12, 2017 15:09

@ZaneScheepers All photons have momentum. For objects that are opaque, light can transfer its momentum to the object. Infrared light can transfer momentum to a lot of ordinary matter (likewise, such matter emits blackbody radiation at infrared frequencies)

Chris

Dec 10, 2017 00:41

Human echolocation

Human echolocation is the ability of humans to detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating sounds – for example, by tapping their canes, lightly stomping their foot, snapping their fingers, or making clicking noises with their mouths – people trained to orient by echolocation can interpret the sound waves reflected by nearby objects, accurately identifying their location and size. == Background == The term "echolocation" was coined by zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944; however, reports of blind humans being able to locate silent objects date back...

H Walters

Dec 9, 2017 14:58

Cone cell

Cone cells, or cones, are one of three types of photoreceptor cells in the retina of mammalian eyes (e.g. the human eye). They are responsible for color vision and function best in relatively bright light, as opposed to rod cells, which work better in dim light. Cone cells are densely packed in the fovea centralis, a 0.3 mm diameter rod-free area with very thin, densely packed cones which quickly reduce in number towards the periphery of the retina. There are about six to seven million cones in a human eye and are most concentrated towards the macula. The commonly cited figure of six million cone...

H Walters

Dec 9, 2017 14:04

Philip: Are you advocating rejecting science when it comes to the study of the mind?

Philip Klöcking

Dec 5, 2017 15:09

Finale. - The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised
in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they
would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption.
Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption:
all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be
fashioned that displace and estrange the world, reveal it to be, with
its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will appear one
day in the messianic light. To gain such perspectives without

Dr Sister

Jul 23, 2013 04:32

"a delirious lucidity whose madness testifies to the hyper-sanity of its own quadruple negation of birth through self immolation, negating the precreated absent affirmations of the night of being that never arrives, interiorised next to the interiority of the opaque clarity in revealing the always present subject whose lack of being is constituted by never being there." - Maurice Blanchot

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commando

Jul 18, 2013 04:50

I am what I am...

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Dr Sister

Jul 5, 2013 12:47

a cocoon can also give birth to something terrible

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Amaan Cheval

May 19, 2013 18:36

This seems like the most interesting dead room ever

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QuietThud

Dec 13, 2012 23:12

researchinprogress.tumblr.com

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stoicfury

Nov 22, 2012 09:49

why not go out right now and kidnap people in their sleep and then put them in a coma with drugs and make sure they have their pleasure centers of their brains always stimulated

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