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dvstgatherer · 5 months
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friend-of-wisdom · 1 year
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I want to study in Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, at least in the Sorbonne or some kind of college where classes are great, the infrastructure is beautiful and practical, with outdoor spaces with lots of grass to sit (for picnics with other students, or to read by yourself) and just relax. I want to be taught by Professors Researchers, and I wanna be able to take every book that i need to read from the university's library. I want cafeterias with a few normal options for lunch at a cheap price, and coffee from the uni café or from those shitty coffee vending machines.
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czortofbaldmountain · 5 months
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Nietzsche: The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself.
Plato: I thought I was your worst enemy.
Nietzsche: I have a life outside of you, Plato.
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captainsvscaptains · 7 months
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Battle of the Ships
Round 2 Part 4 Poll 2
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Ship of Theseus :
The ship Theseus used to travel back from Crete after slaying the minotaur. Is commemorated and repaired for centuries after.
It's the original ship of Theseus! ...or is it, anymore? If it is, what makes it so? And if it isn't, when did it stop being that?
Temeraire :
"He's a uuhhhhhhh dragon. Almost guaranteed to not be qualified, but I figured I'd take a shot for him; forgive me for the time-wasting.
While he's more of a 'plane' technically I guess, his captain is a navy captain, he's named after the original ship 'Temeraire', and something like 75% at least of the books takes place on/around navy ships... Plus he likes swimming so I guess in a way he's a sea-faring vessel??
As far as looks go; big-ass black dragon."
This ship has Opinions and hates racists and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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thehumanfront · 1 year
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a novel written by Milan Kundera. The bowler hat is one of its motifs. (rolffimages via Adobe Stock)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
If someone offered you a life that repeated itself infinitely, would you take it? Life as we know it is deprived of weight; for every event occurs only once. Thin and fleeting, the present is inscrutable. The future is shrouded by uncertainty. Friedrich Nietzsche, for one, favoured repetition: the beauty of necessity. A life of eternal recurrence? Divine!
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kunderais a story about the heavy and the light. The heavy signifies fate: the force of being ‘nailed to eternity’, of carrying the ultimate responsibility of our actions by seeing them repeat, their necessity, their reality, and their truth.
The light signifies the present: its weightlessness, ethereality, and the absence of burden.
Which is the correct approach to life: heavy or light? Nietzsche and Parmenides disagree on which is the positive pole.
According to Nietzsche’s eternal return, fate is to be loved. In it we face what is necessary and thereby see beauty. Amor fati!
Parmenides, by contrast, saw splendidness in constancy. He forbade change, let alone a perpetuity of things coming in and out of existence. Reality is unchanging; being cannot be dispelled, regathered, or repeated. Lightness is cherished.
The answer remains ambiguous to us all. Indeed, Kundera’s characters slew between both sides of the dilemma. Though one senses Kundera himself is drawn to the heavy.
Our experience of love (amongst many other things) exemplifies the opposition of heavy and light.
In love you attach yourself to The One: the person with whom you could spend eternity, over and over. Love is therefore heavy: undying and unable to be thinned by repetition. ‘En muss sein!’ Kundera cites Beethoven: ‘It must be so!’ Love is a necessary connection.
Yet, in imagining just one small change to the past, we meet an unbearable lightness. ‘Es könnte auch anders sein,’ writes Kundera: ‘It could just as well be otherwise’.
Life is full of such mysterious oppositions and ambiguities.
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studentbyday · 3 months
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going through my ReadEra and came across deep work which i hardly ever read. decided to skip to parts that seemed relevant to me instead of reading front to back. and. i love this quote: "I felt that I still existed despite not having shared documentary evidence of said existence on the Internet."
it would be nice to achieve that.
ironic that i say that as i type up a tumblr post.
what makes a person feel like they exist?
often, when i'm drowning in schoolwork, i eventually stop feeling like a human. do you know what i'm talking about?
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informatikerin-freyja · 9 months
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Obligatory post to raise awareness of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which has many articles of relevance for mathematicians, computing scientists, and philosophers.
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averagecamusfan · 1 year
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"We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more..."
from Lyrical and Critical essays by Albert Camus
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jaeactualizing · 2 years
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Week 09.19.22
Monday: Great day I went to senior seminar, it is a graduate preparation class. We have to create presentations on the readings and critique one another. The Professor has not been happy with our performance so far. 😂
Tuesday: The morning started out productive. I finished my notes on Plato’s Gorgias. The rest of the day I was a potato 🥔
Wednesday: I I finished the next chapter of my reading for Senior seminar. Then clocked in for my 6 hour shift.
Thursday: Anxiety won. I was a potato 🥔
Friday: I went to work. I was too tired to study.
This week all in all was ok. I didn’t get as much done as I wanted. The possibility that is perfectionism talking is high. But a work in progress is a process.I learned how to make the Caramel Frappuccino at home. I have solved one problem to create another. I love it here.
New favorites 🤩
Home made caramel Frappuccino ☕️
Fireboy DML bandana 🎧
Mini library study session 📚
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princepearl · 1 year
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Hello! My name is Swann and I am a writer who enjoys philosophy, history, fashion, literature, and obscure little tidbits of knowledge. Essentially the personification of the light academia aesthetic and its ideals.
I'm not particularly fandom-oriented any more and am planning to mainly post/interact with writing, knowledge, and art that appeals to me, but I still am fairly invested in Flight Rising, ASOIAF, Clear and Muddy Loss of Love, and the Elder Scrolls, and would be happy to make new mutuals who are also into any of those.
Overall I'm mainly here to share snippets of my own writing, art (will make an art sideblog soon) and ideals, or those from other people I admire, but I'd love to make new friends along the way. Feel free to shoot me asks and spread love about your day.
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onewakingworld · 1 year
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I've finally snapped and am writing a screed against the Bayesian hegemony that reigns in my department for one of my final papers and let me tell you I am having a fucking blast
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dvstgatherer · 5 months
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friend-of-wisdom · 1 year
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other people annotating books:
<- "wonderful representation of pain and trauma through poetry ♡♡" ->->"this quotes proves that the protagonist's pov is biased and thus the reader should not trust him"
my notes on the margins of the book:
"lmao so gay" "wtf bro that's sus"
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Philosophy of science is something that I’ve been trying to get into lately, especially philosophy of physics - what other way to bring my two most favorite things together? But it’s genuinely difficult - as it ought to be, being something interdisciplinary. 
I’ve been trying to read David Z. Albert’s essays in After Physics, and they have been a slog, and I’m probably going to try reading it again. The same goes for many of the other classics in the genre I’ve attempted to read: Time Reborn by the physicist Lee Smolin, and the parts of the sequel The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time with Roberto Unger, a book of which I’ve read parts. Others have been Bergson and Modern Physics by Milič Čapek which focuses on the areas of Henri Bergson’s temporal metaphysics that anticipated both the quantum-mechanical and the relativistic revolutions in physics.
In the same vein is Order Out Of Chaos by the Nobel prize-winning chemist Ilya Prigogine and philosopher Isabelle Stengers (originally published as La Nouvelle Alliance). It was an interesting description of the evolution of the Newtonian paradigm from Newton to Laplace and Lagrange, and in later portions delved deep into statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, fields which I am obviously unfamiliar with, even if the book as a whole has been stimulating, and is an excellent accidental sequel to Michel Serres’ The Birth of Physics (originally published La Naissance de la physique dans le texte de Lucrèce), covering Lucretius’s epic poem De rerum natura, and also thermodynamics, Archimedean mathematics, and fluid mechanics.
Here’s to more exciting reading ahead! 
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thehumanfront · 2 years
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The Absurd Man
In our latest article we dissect Camus’ ‘absurd man’ (not literally!) in The Myth of Sisyphus. We focus on the actor of the stage.
‘The actor taught us this: there is no frontier between being and appearing. Let me repeat. None of this has any meaning. The final effort for these related minds is to manage to free themselves also from their undertakings: succeed in granting that the very work, whether it be conquest, love, or creation, may well not be; consummate the utter futility of any individual life.’
Read the article here.
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dkl9 · 4 months
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Pure logical argument weakens claims
In formal logic, the law of addition says that, from true proposition P, you can correctly conclude P∨Q, for any propositions P and Q.
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P∨Q is weaker (less strict) than just P. This is true, but it's not unique to the law of addition. Every fundamental logical law produces conclusions at most as strong as its inputs, and often weaker.
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Logical work just helps to interpret the set of worlds your observations accept as options. If pure logic could rule out possible worlds, you might rule out the one true world and not know it, thereby missing the point of valid argument.
Logic is still useful sith a weak claim focused on what we care about (like the mortality of Socrates) is often more useful than a more precise claim with confusingly irrelevant details (like the humanity of Socrates and the mortality of humans).
Applying modus ponens, conjunctive simplification, or syllogism doesn't get rid of the strong input claims P, P∧Q, or P→Q, respectively — they don't diminish your total knowledge — but addition just as well keeps around the original P, and to ignore that is to judge logical laws by different standards.
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