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Bhavani Shankar 💭
@tomcapuder @cbontenbal Interesting. I think science definitely has a chance of making up something useful but we need a huge leap of faith to think it arrives at the truth.

Science keeps discarding things that were thought to be real like electric, heat fluids, luminiferous ether etc. We can make an inductive argument that it'll continue - the world as described by science will keep changing and therefore it is not real.

Multiple (sometimes incompatible and infinite) theories and interpretations exist which give the exact same phenomenon. The one accepted by science is based on luck - the first to make novel predictions.

We are stepping into the realm of the unobservable in advanced physics like string theory. Should we discard these pieces or update the definition and methods of science?

Success of scientific investigation is based on luck too. For example, billions of years in the future the light from other galaxies will be undetectable. But human records from today will say they observed many galaxies. Which one should the future humans believe?

So I don't think it's just "mental masturbation" to open our minds to other (potential) sources of knowledge. That's how we progress and enjoy life. 😄

#science #philosophy #philosophyofscience #physics #metaphysics
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Greg Restall

My North American tour is just about over, and it’s gone better than I could have hoped, with excellent discussions with colleagues at Chapman, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Calgary, and really helpful questions and feedback at each of my talks.

My last talk of this trip will be this afternoon, at the CUNY Graduate Center, for the Logic and Metaphysics Workshop.

consequently.org/presentation/

consequently.orgModal Logic and Contingent Existence — consequently.org
#logic#metaphysics#philosophy
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 📖 **The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell**

_"In this work, Russell explores fundamental questions regarding the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, interrogating what we can genuinely know about the world around us."_

🔗 gutenberg.org/ebooks/5827

#BertrandRussell #ProjectGutenberg #Read #Download #Free #EBook #Book #Bookstodon #Philosophy #Metaphysics @bookstodon @philosophy

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Greg Restall

Next week, I’m heading off to North America for a few talks. (I’d committed to these talks before last year’s election and I have mixed feelings about the trip, but I’m going, nonetheless.)

If you're in the LA area, in or around Calgary, or New York, and you’re into philosophical logic, why not drop by? Details of the talks are here consequently.org/presentation/

consequently.orgPresentations — consequently.org
#philosophy#logic#philosophyOfMathematics
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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@Bronwyn @mos_8502

Fun flashback to studying #Aristotle's #Metaphysics 10 years ago:

Me: <Reads section of Metaphysics>
Me: <Scratches head>
Me: <Re-reads section of Metaphysics>
Me: <Scratches head>
Me: <Looks up alternate translations of Metaphysics>
Me: <Re-reads section of Metaphysics in 2-3 different translations>
Me: <Does some searching around online>
"There's nothing wrong with your translation. It's just hard to understand in the original Greek."

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Nemo_bis 🌈

Someone said a tech policy was "necessary and impossible" and my neurons went in overdrive. I'm going to blame some Aristotelian logician.
1000wordphilosophy.com/2018/12
plato.stanford.edu/entries/mod

Now cleansing my mind with some salutary #DavidHume: "these words are absolutely without any meaning, when employed either in philosophical reasonings or common life".
gutenberg.org/files/9662/9662-

1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology · Possibility and Necessity: An Introduction to ModalityAuthor: Andre Leo Rusavuk Category: Metaphysics Word count: 990 We frequently say things like, ‘This seems possible,’ ‘That can’t be done,’ ‘This must happen,’ ‘She might be able to . . ,’ ‘This is…
#philosophy#metaphysics#morality
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Küpa

Several versions of the myth that tells the origin of shakü agree that it was the learning of a woman returned from the land of the dead. Following the principles of Yukpa cosmology, knowledge that is important to the dead is also important to the living. I'd like to delve deeper into this at some point here on the Fediverse.

In any case, when one dies, one of the tests to reach the community of the dead is knowing how to make a figure and explain its meaning.

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