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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Honestly, 40% of this information makes sense to me.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Shit, the first album I accidentally left on for too long to annoy my parents. "Everything is Drugs" by Complicated Universal Cum is way better.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Oh wow, another paper to add to the pile.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I have the same sentiments with Laas' "Kant’s Analogies of Experience."

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Nonsense of the highest order, and just another example of some tech-billionaire wanting you to know how smart they are because they believe they could've done physics instead.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

None of these words mean anything

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

It's actually a lot more simple than this. A "positivist" is any person greater than 0.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"The history of philosophy contains... controversies, which, having come to a wrong decision and premature conclusion under some unfavorable circumstances... deserve to be subjected to a revision in the interest of truth and justice." Laas couldn't say it any better

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Oh no, I am becoming a Herbartian this summer

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Reading this made me feel completely heartbroken. But I have to say I also do feel lucky, I feel lucky to have lived the life I lived where I could encounter your work and ideas. Thank you for everything, and peace and love to you and your family.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Big news for fans of Aristotle.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Coil – The Ape of Naples Best comeback albums: Portishead — Third A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The older I get, the more I like people just having fun.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Everything was going fine until concepts became things

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Nothing sums up my past year more than this quote.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"I immersed myself, as far as was possible for me, in Laasian positivism, to which even some skeptical elements in myself responded." — Paul Natorp (1921)

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I see positivism really just as a way to filter through *nonsense,* a method to identify all the squirrelly ideas on the marketplace.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It’s unfortunate most think positivism is some kind of prescription for reducing the world to a fairly predictable and mundane place. It isn’t that *at all.* The *truly* weird survives it.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

"to catch the eel of science by its tail" is now my favourite Kant phrase.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We think and represent, therefore, we are; and we represent because we perceived.

The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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7th Arthur Pap Lecture Francesca Biagioli (University of Turin) The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 5 pm CET, Vienna The event will also be streamed via YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/4SwyYaZ...

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The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach

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If it can't be found laying about, dig it up. That's the basic premise behind mining, and my Lebensphilosophie.

idealisirend, leibnizianisirend, nichtkantianisirend, realisirend, eleatisirend, scholastisirend, herbartianisirend, wolfianisirende, schellingianisirend, kritisirend, schopenhauerianisirend, Helmholtzianisirend, lotzeanisirend and thought he was addle-brained

Though imagine a guy reviewing your work finding every opportunity he can to write (sic!?), because that’s Windelband. Dood saw Laas make up a new adjectives like heraklitisirend, platonisirend, kantianisirend, aristotelisirend, pythagoraisirend, christianisirend, rationalisirend...

Laas' hatred for Windelband is hilarious. He immediately goes on to say: "It is all the more surprising when recently a Kantian with such conscious agreement with the master, like Professor Windelband... now represents the view that even the logical laws are synthetic."

This is, by far, the most fun book to translate. "What we are fighting against is the opinion of those who... attribute these norms and ideals to a bloated so-called reason; who believe they have completed their philosophical business with them when they pronounce their magical a priori upon them."

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Mill’s axiom of the uniformity of nature’s course is not only unprovable but also contradicts the facts. The world becomes ever more complex; nature progresses. — Ernst Laas

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I rec colored Post-it tabs for finding certain ideas instead of highlighting. If I highlight, then generally it’s yellow for premises, pink for conclusion, and blue for the writer objecting/refuting another philosopher.

Angus Mancini-Miller @angusmm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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If I sit still enough, and engage as little as possible; I’ll look like I understand everything being discussed - the guy who sits beside me in my Kant class

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

just highlighting text with my FIFTH HIGHLIGHTER COLOR - the guy who sits beside me in my kant class

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

TIME is measured in REFERENCE PAGES and sleep is just a THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT that PEER REVIEWERS rejected for LACK OF EVIDENCE

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Angus Mancini-Miller @angusmm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

“This is precisely the basis of art, and most clearly that of poetry and the graphic arts. The highest manner of intuiting, as we find it in an artist’s view, is this kind of apprehension of a new type of stationary or mobile appearance of man and nature.” - Hermann von Helmholtz

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If Poland and France are happy Germany is rearming, you know you’re on the wrong side of history.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"When there is a lack of a healthy philosophy which directly criticizes the speculative presuppositions and moral impositions of the churches and seeks to replace them with more timely ideas, then obscurantism and reaction retain power in hand." — Ernst Laas

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A weird pattern observed grading tests all day. In presenting a counterexample argument where the conclusion is obviously false, a few students concluded with "birds are not mammals." Just shows you there are people out there whose first idea of something so obviously true is birds are mammals.

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

And opposite to that? "The negative universality is lowkey sus 👀 consuming individual things like a total yeet monster 💨 It's giving transparent, elastic, all-up-in-your-business FLUID energy – we call that AIR, no cap! 🌬️" Hegel, Encyclopedia, §282

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This statement pretty much gives the gist of February, 2025.

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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A student just now: "Either I'm just extremely exhausted or I'm becoming a Hegelian."

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I swear, these historians of 19th century German philosophy either got to start talking about feelings soon or I am going to FLIP