ryo: "hm we're talking practical syllogisms now and i have a few observations: 1) cool asf 2) my pragmatism are rearing their head again, but in a way that might be amenable. not entirely convinced the second clause is necessary"

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hm we're talking practical syllogisms now and i have a few observations: 1) cool asf 2) my pragmatism are rearing their head again, but in a way that might be amenable. not entirely convinced the second clause is necessary

ryoSep 22, 2025

i’m thinking about this terms of an excess (surfeit?) of instrumentality, and pairing this with “pragmatism is true but it doesn’t work”. like let’s play along for a moment and say that the future presents itself as a telos and we’re acting with nested activities towards that.

September 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM

ryoSep 25, 2025

3) but im glad the initial expression of it is not pragmatist and is more true to aristotle 4) im somewhat witholding judgement for now because i wanna see all the cool things that can come out of it

ryoSep 25, 2025

5) i would love to see desire and its relation to practical rationality explored more. of course i will always be sympathetic to the thoroughgoing contexualism and the opposition of modernism that creates the conditions for the possibility of nihilistic anxiety to arise (hi geuss)

ryoSep 25, 2025

my pragmatism concerns* amenable to revision while maintaining the force of the posited structure*