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The fact that contributing to the defeat of fascism accelerated the demise of the British Empire just means that’s we got two Ws for the price of one btw.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 3h

a weird thing about me is that I’m a qualia skeptic who also has extremely vivid subjective experience

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

do klingon accountants also end their emails with “die well”

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eduard will likely release a dual pack of their new Spitfire Mk.Ia within the year.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've run into this problem with mathematicians (until I imposed an urgency condition, a mathematician friend of mine insisted that belief revision must be irrational) but I know pretty well a lot of computer scientists share a conception of knowledge similar to philosophers

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bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just turned the page to this chapter as my music playlist cued the main theme from "Halo: Combat Evolved" and I have to say that's the most accurate summation of my attitude towards this "HtMIC" that any work of art could elicit.

4.3. "How to Make Our Ideas Clear".

Empiricism, as we nowadays define it, entails that experience is our only source of knowledge about the natural world. Scientific theories should be appropriately connected to observation and hypotheses without such a connection are illegitimate since there are no extrasensory ways to obtain reliable knowledge about reality. In spelling out this rather abstract view, empiricist philosophers have defended a variety of positions. They have developed different conceptions of experience, different ideas about the right connection between theory and evidence, and different views about what is wrong with beliefs that do not satisfy these constraints. Broadly speaking, however, one can distinguish two different (but compatible) clusters of positions: those that are concerned with justification and maintain that our beliefs should have the right inferential connection to observational evidence, and those that focus on meaning and maintain that theoretical terms should have the appropriate semantic connection to observational concepts. The former typically appeal to deductive, inductive, or abductive modes of inference to distinguish between justified and unwarranted beliefs. The latter appeal to definition, translation, and analysis to determine whether a concept is meaningful or meaningless.
The American physicists encountered thus far are all concerned with evidential support. Yet some of the most sophisticated late- nineteenth- century treatises on the philosophy of science also emphasize the importance of empirical meaning, Peirce’s six- part Illustrations of the Logic of Science being the best- known example. In “How to Make our Ideas Clear,” the second of his six papers,

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 29/09/2026

See what students are saying about our programs

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Currently unable to put this book down. It's excellent!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hell yeah losers of the world unite we got jokes

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wordcel High Decoupling - Analytic Philosophy. Wordcel Low Decoupling - Continental Philosophy Shape Rotator High Decoupling - No one this is fake if you're doing maths you're drawing out structural connections cf Bourbaki. Shape Rotator Low Decoupling - String Theorist

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was wrong. It’s happening

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Logical positivism is, to me, the intellectual equivalent of comfort food.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty sure this would work just as well with Cincinnati and Skyline.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

B-25B "Ruptured Duck", April 18th, 1942. The Doolittle Raid. Some of my best work IMHO. Pilot: 1st. Lt. Ted Lawson. Copilot: 2d Lt. Dean Davenport Navigator: 2d Lt. Charles L. McClure Bombardier: 2d Lt. Robert S. Clever Engineer/Gunner: Sgt. David J. Thatcher #HistScaleModels #ScaleModels #Airfix

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 27/09/2026

It is a tale, told by a fucking idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More likely historically accurate for Antony to have said this.

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Walt Whitman famously believed that certain large cardinals were capable of modeling inconsistent theories

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boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

what is or might be the fundamental group of the space of knowledge literally sounds like it should be a paper by @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If nothing else, putting Breaking Bad higher than Better Call Saul is a crime.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm struggling so hard not to read this as "miniature painting" - in which case ivory still makes sense, even.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just got an R&R! It's heavy on the first R, but.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nobody cares and it's not the point, but their selection of model airplane kits is abysmal.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My question: "What happens when you tell someone something and they believe you?" My answer: "They believe that thing." My methods:

Crazy diagram. For those in the know, hasse diagram of a simplicial complex where the facets are labeled "message sent and received", "Message sent but not received", "no message sent".

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 24/09/2026

I think the intuitive pull of this argument are the last remnants of dualism. If we can describe something using math, it can't be what we do because what we do is ineffable

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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

POV you and the buddies are Hoovermaxxing and this pleb hits you with the wealthphobic stare

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Took me like 6 years but I finally cleaned a brush in my coffee mug.

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arXiv cs.LO Logic in Computer Science @cslo-bot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Eiji Yamada: The Sources of Unknowability and Self-refutation in Epistemic and Dynamic Epistemic Logic arxiv.org/abs/2609.21317 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21317 arxiv.org/html/2609.21317

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A portrait of J.L. Austin in black and white, with a speech bubble extending down to the bottom of the image, towards the embedded post

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kurt Gödel never said anything like this. He especially did not say anything like this in the 30s. But even in his later life, as he got more Platonist, he basically said the OPPOSITE of this!

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think this is the exact face I made when I caught a student copying answers on an online exam, and they insisted that they had simply memorized the sequence of answers on a practice exam published online by a previous student, and mindlessly applied them.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I think the median voter believes in Natural Prices, and these are about how much things costed at the most recent point in their mind where they felt relatively financially stable. They expect politicians and businesses to honour this and take steps to ensure things cost their Natural Price.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every anglophone anarchist text from the 90s-'10s:

Scene from Twin Peaks. Man in red suit sits in black, cushioned chair. Behind him, a red curtain, and a nude marble statues. He looks excited.

"That Anarchist Ideology you like is going to come back in style."

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm pretty solidly in the big tent pragmatist camp. But militantly so - it upsets me when people have a methodologically restrictive view of philosophy. It's usually unwarranted or even contradictory to how they do philosophy.

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