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Confusing reason with common sense and blaming Descartes for Locke, Hume, and so forth is pretty standard romanticism. Meanwhile, there are Anglophone philosophers who blame Descartes for Kant, Hegel, and so forth.

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Being, truth, and reality are the same thing. It can't be non-being or be divided by non-being; and we know that with certainty. We'd also know it's the same thing as conceiving with certainty if anyone had been wise enough to preserve the rest of Parmenides' treatise.

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It's okay. I've already been saying for decades that compared to Evolutionary Psychology, Freud is Experimental Physics. Evolutionary Psychology is by far the most bullshit field of study I've ever heard of.

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I don't know enough history to say whether it started in 1066, or 1169, or 1485.

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Oh good, I'm back to my regular blase self. I saw the poster last night and thought it did okay at copying jokes I've already seen a zillion times. I think it demonstrates how close to unanimous criticism of Gen-AI for education is.

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It doesn't philosophize. I asked ChatGPT if a contradiction can be true and if a thing must be identical with itself. All it could tell me is the consensus among philosophers seems to be contradictions can't be true and things must be identical with themselves. That's just first kind of knowledge.

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Thank God it was England. It wouldn't be as funny anywhere else.

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No, that's just Plato's cave. Decartes' demon goes much deeper.

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I'm not absolutely opposed; but I'm not going to bother thinking up when a death penalty appropriate, because executing someone thirty years after a crime they committed as a teenager is much worse than barbaric. It's close to pure evil.

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Incredible courage to give it to a Canadian.

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Haha. I've never even heard of anyone paying for Photoshop.

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They're the same thing as the Confederacy. Tbh I think Lincoln was going to be too forgiving anyway, but nowhere near as forgiving as what happened without him. Sherman said for reconstruction to succeed in the South, every Confederate politician and plantation owner would have to be executed.

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Gary Sugar @garysugar.bsky.social · 19h

I think everyone knows confidence is a property of pride and fearfulness is a property of dejection. Confidence sometimes turns out to be right; but keep in mind that Americans are generally the most confident nation in the world, so the more confident half of them is usually over-confident.

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I insist I heard "But you can learn how to feel inside" for fifty years because it's better than "But you can learn how to be you in time". (All You Need Is Love)

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I think it's the one that's even worse.

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Well, you have to be some kind of exile or foreigner.

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Oh, come on. I think Tony Blair or Boris Johnson, or how about posthumous Dick Cheney?

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Parmenides said "confusion in their hearts leads their intellects astray ... for them all things turn back on themselves", because the word 'contradiction' wasn't invented yet. I sometimes cheat and make it say "for them there are contradictions in everything".

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My opinion is "Zionism" and "racism" both have multiple meanings, but I think anyone can figure out which meanings the Greens intend in their slogan. It's reasonable to argue whether the slogan is a good or bad tactic; but to insist on different meanings of 'Zionism' and 'racism' isn't reasonable.

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Gary Sugar @garysugar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I only know agency from seeing it here fifty times a day. My impression is it's for assigning moral blame. You didn't punch me because I punched you. It was your agency.

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Rationality is knowing a contradiction can't be true. The problem for most philosophers is there are contradictions they love and don't want to stop believing.

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Sorry, but they're just making up the whole first sentence. None of it is true.

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Oops, I had to delete a post because I said 2500BC when I meant 250BC. Don't worry. I'll say the same stuff again pretty soon.

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Wow, we are a growing movement. This is the third account I've seen call it a comedy in the last few months. I guess they might be the same person; but still, at least someone else thinks it's supposed to be funny.

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No, he just "elevates his mind so high that he is simply untouched by any offense from others". Vedantins call that an absorption state. Focus on the Atman, or inmost self, "I think therefore I am", and relate everything to it. It works because Atman is Brahman.

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Netanyahu defended Hitler. I'm not making this up. He actually said Hitler only wanted to expel the Jews from Europe, but the Palestinians (of course) talked him into doing the Holocaust.

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I admit I like to blame both sides; but there's no way around that Nixon deliberately decided to exploit racism with his "Southern strategy", and every one of his Republican successors stuck with it and deliberately exploited it too. The result is they're now 100% Neo-Confederate.

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Whatever. I'm only familiar with the Literature and Peace prizes. I assume there are actually honorable prizes someone else is giving, but those two are propaganda trash.

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You should have listened to Descartes and Spinoza. Shame only helps in matters that can't be concealed; and anyway, pretty soon they get used to it and stop caring and come roaring back ten times angrier.

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My only reason for opposing nuclear power is US government is too corrupt to regulate it safely. I grew up in Chicago and saw buildings fall down because the safety regulations weren't enforced.

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Oh, maybe they're "unusually sensitive individuals", like Spinoza.

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Gary Sugar @garysugar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've been saying he's too emotional to be any kind of judge for twenty years. They're supposed to have judicial temperament. He's nowhere near that.

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No beginning or end is just infinite duration; but Parmenides explains eternity. "Neither has it been, nor shall it be; because it is, all alike, all at once, one".

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Gary Sugar @garysugar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pronouncing a word wrong is impeachable if it gets enough votes. You don't need to dress it up in pretty emoluments and establishment clause bows. Just say he's stupid, tyrannical, and destroying everything in too many ways to list so let's take a vote today because he has to go.

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Oh, it's just a partial rebate on the $200 he raised your Medicare cost last year.

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If it was called Romneycare, Republicans wouldn't be anywhere near as against it. Anyway, Dems are not going to abolish ICE.

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I hope they won't throw it away on a few years of identity politics.

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I doubt Dems will get rid of ICE. They probably assume rightly that by now most Americans think we've had it since 1776 and abolishing it would be the same as open borders. Too bad they can't just say get rid of all the satanic Cheney stuff, after they made him their 2024 campaign mascot.

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I can see why a nazi would think any nazi government is good enough; but it has to be a posh English nazi government.

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I was wondering the other day what ridiculously evil demands Trump was making about Ukraine-Russia lately. The only people involved in this war who aren't 100% evil are the Ukrainians and Russians getting killed in it.

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When people say they're unhappy, they mean dejected. Pride is a kind of unhappiness too; but through pride we think we're happy.

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Paper maps in the glove box. I delivered pizza and Chinese food and drove a cab; so I also had a spotlight, so I could see the street names and numbers on the buildings. You want the cheap spotlight that turns on instantly, not the expensive one that takes a second or two.

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