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2018-11-13 at 3:18 PM UTC in New KeycapsSweet keyboard Lanny.
Modern laptop keyboards are borderline unusable for me. There's really no reason not to get a better keyboard if you're going to be using one all day for work. -
2018-11-13 at 12:35 PM UTC in Users you would do
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2018-11-13 at 11:05 AM UTC in should lanny stop pretending to be an important philosopher
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2018-11-13 at 10:18 AM UTC in Lack of strict belief in Naturalism should be turned into a capital offence, with a grace period until 2050
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2018-11-13 at 10:17 AM UTC in should lanny stop pretending to be an important philosopher
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2018-11-13 at 1:09 AM UTC in Infinityshock's BanTbh Lanny is a good lad, y'all should lay off him or I'll kill you.
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2018-11-13 at 1:09 AM UTC in Infinityshock's BanRebel against Lannynigger children
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2018-11-13 at 1:05 AM UTC in Lack of strict belief in Naturalism should be turned into a capital offence, with a grace period until 2050Start with the Christians first, slay them wherever ye find them
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2018-11-12 at 11:14 PM UTC in What do the feds who crawl this site think about you?Faggot
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2018-11-12 at 7:38 PM UTC in Q WAS A FRAUD THE ENTIRE TIMEQanon was an IQ test, anyone who gave it an ounce of credence was certifiably retarded.
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2018-11-12 at 5:43 PM UTC in should lanny stop pretending to be an important philosopher
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny then how do you know for sure when your arguing against kant your actually arguing against the idea of kant as opposed to arguing against the opinion of people / a 3rd party / a bunch of cunts who interpreted the works of kant ?
In general: you would rely on the credibility of the book and author. For example, if it's being used as a textbook in Harvard, you're probably safe.
For me in specific: I've already read them, which is how I came to make my recommendation. -
2018-11-12 at 4:02 PM UTC in How do I claw my way our of the epistemological void I find myself in?Bepm
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2018-11-12 at 4 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs AttentionWhy is scrando so buttpained about malus?
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2018-11-12 at 3:44 PM UTC in should lanny stop pretending to be an important philosopher
Originally posted by gadzooks That's incredibly true.
You're an idiot.Actual empirical experiments have been conducted to help substantiate claims about how the physical world really works, but these are still just based on theory.
Do you not understand how science works?
The theory is a model for explaining actual, empirical observations of behaviours in nature. That's the starting point, nobody just pulled QM out of their ass. Each correct prediction by a theory increases the likelihood of the theory being correct. QM is not any different.
We can't deductively prove anything, science is the realm of synthetic statements, we use statistics to bolster our confidence in theories; we can say through repeated experiments that we either have the right answer, or the alternative is that we are getting consistent results by luck on the order of winning the lottery 6 times in a row. If you want to cling to that alternative hypothesis then great, but the rest of us are fine with saying we have 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999% confidence in the explanation.I mean, quarks, bosons, dark matter, what the fuck is all this? The Pre-Socratics would have probably accused us of the same kind of mythological/religious invention that Pythagoras was on about with his mystical mathematical ratios that seemed to explain all of God and man's creation.
We observe actual effects in the world that are very accurately modelled as force carrier particles between interacting fields. It's not just made up out of someone's ass. Literally wtf are you babbling about? -
2018-11-12 at 12:56 PM UTC in should lanny stop pretending to be an important philosopherReading the historical works of philosophy is kind of a waste of time now, except as entertainment. Like nobody needs to ever watch a Superman or Spiderman origin story again.
Honestly, nobody really wants to read shitty 2000-200 year old philosophy books. You don't see physics hobbyists reading the Principia Mathematica as a modern maths textbook either. The only reason people do it for philosophy is because it's easy to let your imagination get lost somewhere down the tracks of more primitive philosophical discussions, which are written like the Bible. People love a good story, and it's easy to get convinced along the way and refuse to see the legitimate criticisms of the next one you read.
Going into philosophy to confirm your own biases is a real hazard that people don't give enough credit.
In general I would recommend picking up a good textbook that can walk you through the history of philosophy in medium depth, so you can get to contemporary philosophy, where IMO the actual meat of the interesting discussion is.
You can understand the points and reasons behind the works of the big papi philosophers without actually reading their book, and it will help you stay outside of the yarns they spin and remain rational.
There is a big payoff to working your way up to contemporary philosophy, where we've really advanced since we moved past discussions that mostly focused on correcting Descartes's errors. This is where it actually gets interesting. -
2018-11-12 at 4:10 AM UTC in Users you would doNiggers
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2018-11-12 at 12:40 AM UTC in Users you would doWhether or not the anus exists is a matter of your reference frame, and subject to the uncertainty principle.
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2018-11-11 at 7:32 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs AttentionNarc is literally pain whoring on Malice's death.
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2018-11-11 at 7:31 PM UTC in Users you would do
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2018-11-11 at 5:20 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs Attention
