The Symposium

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Gugg

17:08

@CamilStaps Why does everybody (you, Wikipedia) seem to be on first name basis with Thomas Aquinas? The SEP switches around. What's the reasoning here?

user61389

@Gugg sorry, what do you mean? Why I don't use Thomas van Aquino?

commando

since when does a review need more than one approval...?

*edit, not review

user61389

@commando it has been that way as long as I'm around, but that's only half a year or so.. When a diamond reviews it, it's approved immediately though

commando

>.> I've been around a year and a half too... evidently I have memory issue

*a memory issue

evidently my english is broken today too...

user61389

@commando lol, ask a mod or Meta Stack Overflow ;)

commando

17:13

ah well, it's no big deal

I need to get back to participating more on this site... it's just that more and more I feel incompetent in answering any of the questions which is ironic because since joining I've only taken more and more philosophy classes

user61389

17:31

@commando no, that's a good thing. Sokrates said he knew nothing, right? :)

commando

ah actually that's a bit of an unfortunate misquotation

what he actually said was:

"If I am any wiser than other men it is because where they do not know but think they know, I know that I do not know."

but I understand your meaning :)

it's just I get a little irritated when I read an introduction to philosophy book and it misquotes Socrates like that, since he's exactly the sort of person (at least in Platonic dialogues) who would instantly refute that statement by saying "but then you know that you know nothing, so you know something!"

Gugg

@CamilStaps Actually I meant: Why do people use Thomas instead of Aquinas or Aquino.

user61389

@Gugg oh, like that, I don't know, it's weird indeed

Gugg

I thought you'd only use the first name only if it is preceded by Sir or Saint.

user61389

@commando I know that ;)

commando

17:36

ah, good then

user61389

@Gugg dunno, I only use Thomas because everyone does :)

commando

17:49

in my experience people, including my professors, have mostly called him "Aquinas"

Gugg

There's an exception: the apostles. But that's another Thomas.

And he died in Chennai. Pretty mobile for those days, I'd say.

@commando Ask nicely in chat?

commando

18:20

ermm yes :3

should I have said something else?

(@Gugg)

Gugg

The question was actually already nicely phrased. :)

By the way, this way of asking for survey-participants, is likely to result in huge biases. Very wrong.

commando

well yes, I did notice that afterward, but a secondary interpretation of what I said could be "since you asked nicely here, do it again but in chat"

I do sort of regret that particular phrasing and I hope the OP doesn't take offense, but it's too late to edit

maybe the project is on selection-biases resulting from asking certain online groups to take your surveys?

Gugg

That would be nice, but how likely is that? :)

A "research project at university". It's starting to bug me.

commando

19:13

are you getting skeptical?

I haven't even checked what the survey is yet

Gugg

Neither have I. :)

user61389