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I'm increasingly impressed by conversations with LLMs. This is an exploration of irony, mockery, disrespect, and scorn, and an inquiry into where Socrates drew the line. We ultimately agreed that he was disrespectful towards poetry, but not scornful. #Philosophy #Socrates x.com/i/grok/share...

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Nick Gall (@ironick) is talking about conga drums and his twitter handle at #appian13 Appian World in DC

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(Fruitless) Conversation stopper: X is (not) true. (Fruitful) Conversation starter / catalyst: In what senses / contexts / ways is X true and in what not true? 'What Does the LNC Tell Us, If Anything? Paradox, Parameterization, and Truth in Tiantai Buddhism' - Brook Ziporyn #Buddhism #Philosophy

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TIL that sometimes when you post a link to one of your previous posts, it doesn't provide a "link card" preview of your previous post. All readers see is the URL. Apparently, it is a timing issue. Brand new posts take a while to generate a corresponding link card. Slightly irritating.

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Wait. What? @graeters.bsky.social's Skyline-Chili spiced ice cream?!? OMFG! Shut up and take my money now! www.graeters.com/skyline-ice-...

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'Philosophy is what is left over after one has bracketed both common sense and all the various expert cultures.' - Ricard Rorty (Rorty has so many bangers, I'm thinking of creating a 365 Days of Rorty Quotes Calendar.) #Rorty #Philosophy #Pragmatism

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Tired: enabling constraints (constraints that enable) Wired: inspiring constraints (constraints that inspire) #DesignThinking #Design #Inspiration (apologies to Alicia Juarrero) direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

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Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

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Tired: 'Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with saying.' - Richard Rorty Wired: 'Truth means nothing but undermining attachments.' - Brook Ziporyn #Pragmatism #Buddhism #Tiantai

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TIL William James regarded the non-philosophically minded as deplorables😉: 'the practical, conventionally thinking man, to whom...nothing has true seriousness but personal interests & whose dry earnestness in those is only excelled by that of the brute' From 'Chauncey Wright' #Pragmatism #Philosophy

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I feel seen.

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OMFG! I didn't believe Volume 2 of 'Design Rules' would ever be published! Volume 1 had a fundamental impact on my understanding of modularity. Can't wait to read Volume 2.

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'The natural tendency of professionalization and academicization is to favor a talent for analysis and problem-solving over imagination, to replace enthusiasm with dry, sardonic knowingness.' - #Rorty #Pragmatism #Philosophy

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Rorty's political prescience on display again: "Nowadays nobody even bothers to back up opposition to liberal reforms with argument." - 'The Professor and the Prophet' #Philosophy #Pragmatism #Rorty

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Yep. #SpotifyWrap open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...

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'The creation and curation of all things worthy: Inspiration as vital force in persons and cultures' By Todd Thrash Thrash's psychological framework of inspiration is transforming my nascent philosophy of Fruitionism. (I'm almost tempted to rename it Inspirationism!)

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The digit sequence 123456789 appears three times in the first two billion digits of Pi. The sequence appears at these positions: 523,551,502 773,349,079 1,171,203,711 Every possible sequence of digits of every possible length appears somewhere in the digits of Pi.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Emerson Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. - Hegel Nothing great has ever been accomplished in the world without enthusiasm. - Kant

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"Anything can be anything if you put in the right context". - Rorty in 'Deconstruction and Pragmatism' His shortest and broadest version of "Anything can be made to look good or bad by being redescribed". #Pragmatism #Philosophy #Rorty

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“The truth of time is that its goal is the past and not the future” - Hegel, Philosophy of Nature S 261, Addendum What the hell does this mean? Why is there virtually no discussion of this passage? #philosophy #Hegel

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The evolution of inspiration: Inspired by Gods. Inspired by God. Inspired by Reason. Inspired by Imagination. Inspired by Inspiration.

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Tired: Do not block the way of inquiry. Wired: Do not block the way of inspiration.

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It's important to remember that Rorty's starting point was Hegel, which led him BACK to Dewey.. "For quite a while after I read Hegel, I thought that the two greatest achievements of the species to which I belonged were The Phenomenology of Spirit and Remembrance of Things Past.."

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Since bsky is taking off I'm gonna repost the best thing I ever made.

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Happy World Philosophy Day to those who celebrate! "By celebrating World Philosophy Day each year, on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO underlines the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual." www.unesco.org/en/days/phil...

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If you miss the old multi-column UIs on Twitter (eg TweetDeck), you'll love deck.blue! I'm just starting to use it and it's wonderful.

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According to ediphy.org, these are the top 10 most mentioned philosophers in the ~20th century American academic philosophy journals it tracks. Bertrand Russell seems to only one to have faded substantially.

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A great tool for procrastinating! Check out edhiphy. A new way to analyze philosophical connections. It uses textual mentions of philosophers' names instead of citations to get a different sense of which philosophers were discussing which philosophers.

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Hot take: It's not the destination. It's not even the journey. It's the inspiration that sparks the journey.

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Just what I was looking for, a way to convert a Starter Pack to a List!

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Great article about the Ig Nobel Prize. TIL that only one person has won both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Which is worse: improv or philosophy? THAT is the ultimate question! (See the hover text to see what inspired this post.)

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"Discipline is the servant of inspiration." Bebe Moore Campbell www.namiurbanla.org/bebe-moore-c...

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"Only within the scaffolding of these truths [utter annihilation of heat death], only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation...be safely built." How can unyielding despair be a foundation for unyielding inspiration? I think I've found a way.

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