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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah hmm, did you remember to put all the papers under your pillow? (Glad you're feeling a bit better!)

Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really hope you do get around to writing up your thoughts on the deference discussion some time!! (Also that you feel better!)

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s literally an old Onion article. 🤦

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

(In case you're not acquainted with the bestest lakes: Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior)

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To remember the Great Lakes, we used to learn the acronym H.O.M.E.S. The Trump admin has torn down H.O.M.E.S. to replace it with S.H.A.M.E. It's just SO on the nose 😭😭😭

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In truth: Any argument is only as strong as its premises. Being clear that a premise is based on intuitions about language or society or whatnot is just being honest with your interlocutor about the strength of your argument. This is an excellent feature of analytic philosophy.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Insofar as the complaint is that it's intuitions all the way down, I don't for a moment believe Continental philosophy doesn't rely on author intuition. Analytic philosophy is just honest when it does this. And I, for one, embrace analytic crystal girlies.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I didn't expect kids these days to somehow ruin Battlestar Galactica rewatches, but here we are 😑

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

But have you heard that the meaning of "I" is the characteristic function picking out the speaker? Chilling stuff.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's a fair criticism! I do think modern analytic philosophy recognizes this (criticism of rampant, careless idealization is a central theme of the social turn, the rise of analytic feminism, etc). This seems like following the evolution of analytic philosophy into the present, not breaking it.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Break notwithstanding, I do think *we*, the modern academy, take the Circle as our progenitors, not the interlopers. Insofar as the question concerns the ideology that gave rise to and sustains the method, if we're all reading/teaching the Circle, I'm not seeing the relevance of the interlopers.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Even so, doesn't analytic philosophy as we know it take a lot of its shape through the Vienna Circle? (Per my understanding, a rather anti-fascist group, having been forced to emigrate when the Nazis came to power. Am I misremembering this?)

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"anxious epistemology" is so excellent though 😭

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Literally listening to Contrapoints on this right now.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

pssh. Knowy stuff is just beliefy stuff with a gold star.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Beliefy stuff" isn't good enough for you?

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ah sure. Not to be a complete Millennial about it, but this seems like wha’s going on when Aeris dies in FFVII - an actual main character death is so incredibly shocking, but all of the other violence doesn’t really register.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ah interesting. I’m realizing that I wasn’t really thinking of Doom etc, just because it’s so cartoonish (because same in that context). I was thinking more like Resident Evil sort of games, where it’s much more individualized and significant.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hmmmm okay, fair. The grantedness point is really interesting. Do you think it would hold for equally visceral visuals?

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Which do you find more affecting: video game violence or tv/movie violence? (Spouse, wildly, argues TV violence is more affecting. I refuse to be alone in the world about this.)

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Skill issue" is an excellent diagnosis here

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Alas, dear Editorial Discretion, we hardly knew ye. Humanity is split on whether the current media megacorps should attend the rememberance.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Damnit, this search is *really* going to ruin my algorithm, isn't it?

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Well, see, you haven't considered the possibility that he also might well *not* have been the most famous blahbilty blah. You're just missing the nuances of capital-J Journalism.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I think maybe some people don't know that it's okay to just complain about things over beers. Like, you don't actually *have* to write a column every time you're annoyed by The Youths. Sorry, The Female Youths.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And charter school regulation is, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhm, less stringent.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Also sort of private school and homeschooling, but mostly charters. Charter schools are often paid for using vouchers that send public money to them. So, many students choosing charters, threatens the nearby public schools because their attendance falls and funding is often tied to attendance.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s anti-public school, pro-charter school rhetoric!

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Indeed, I am insufficiently scandalized.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

(you're both epistemologists, obvs.)

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is why I don't talk to political philosophers.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

…If Mr. Beast were an analytic philosopher…

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’m not entirely sure how far that insofar goes, but it’s not nothing!

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Insofar as people’s receptiveness to evidence/argument/rhetoric is a function of how much they identify with the speaker and feel understood by them, I think it’s useful, yeah. Like, that’s what I think this tactic actually does, as far as its value for “conversion” is concerned.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hm. Maybe this is right. I literally just ran across this comment on a Reddit thread ask folks who moved to California what they notice lol

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’ve always thought of this as an instrumental relationship. That is, rightwing people want these folks because they’ll be better ambassadors for center left conversions. (There’s some decent evidence in psychology on the effectiveness of this sort of technique for increasing credibility, too 🤷)

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

England playing with 12 on the field rn with ref sitting in the middle of French attacks ~_~

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I was pro the little collars, but now I think maybe they're a hindrance.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ooh, I just got *so many* new true beliefs. This is great, my epistemic utils are off the charts today.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Check out Will Fleisher’s work on inquiry and pursuitwothiness on this point! Eg philpapers.org/rec/FLEPAI-5

philpapers.org

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hey everyone, reminder to set your reminder to cancel your YouTubeTV subscription this Sunday! ⚽️❌

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So long as you’re not in Texas (…etc), at least!

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I can’t believe the score-all-the-goals-in-the-last-ten-minutes team scored all the goals in the last ten minutes!

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Oh wow. Pulling a red on that is just heartbreaking 😭

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I read this as “head sorcerer” and I’m sticking with it.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The fancy version of this is now up at Hypatia 😊

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