the straightforward nominalism of weber and wittgenstein is refreshing relative to the theoretical confusion of analytics but its horribly thin

i really do think there is more space for an enlightened pragmatism to do more, but it would look very strange to pragmatism's typical adherents

i think rorty's strange pragmatism gets us to a more exciting configuration but by basically going in the opposite direction (or maybe inventing a new dimension?) of what i mean in root

chat do i fork over the 40 dollars and hope calibre de-drm still has the sauce

when the spirit of an age has grown old, all philosophy can do is paint the gray of the world in gray. consciousness could not despair at all over what is gray if it did not harbor the concept of a different color whose trace is not absent from the negative whole.

one of the most painful challenges is to learn to think contingent and transient essentientialities, essences produced through their moments

you misunderstand being when you transfigure it into pure becoming

like i'm completely on board with proceeding negatively and carving conceptual space by negation but there comes a point when its so devoid of determination that it implies laziness and ignorance on the part of the writer

the most offensive thing is when the content isn't allowed to determine its own investigation and instead is treated with a misshapen imposition. my expectation for the author is to be as rigorous as the concept demands in the way the concept demands

in a more sympathetic tone, i understand feeling disoriented after realizing the failures of definitions and necessary and sufficient conditions, but still it doesn't let you off the hook for doing the hard work

ok rawls

idk maybe i'm too cynical but "ethical double-binds" and "cruel optimism" as conceptual furniture always just piss me off

i should write a brief essay on the cruel optimism of ethical double-binds

okay new plan: if i'm reading anything even tangentially related to something i was reading in undergrad, delete the file and find something new. if i'm reading something that never could have hoped to make it into my undergrad curricula, delete the file and find something new

i don't care how critical your critical contract tradition is, it's still a fucking pain to read

check out my new blog post everyone

wait a minute this goes hard What's worse? The fact that a new Target and Wendy's exist on top of the ashes of the old, or that it was the working class that's responsible for rebuilding them?

i have a feeling they might mean it in the opposite way i'm interpreting but idc

lol okay i gotta remind myself to stop eating junk food or it'll rot my teeth

to be fair i tried to read some stuff with more meat to it but the frameworks were so gross

me talking to kasey

i haven’t reinstalled twt on the new phone and i don’t wanna, tho i imagine it’ll happen at some point. atp twt is kinda like my “2 week minecraft phase” and it’s convenient brain busy material in an unobtrusive format that’s conducive for waging

up too late

im crying dude this shit is absolute gold the next time im sad you need to show me these and make fun of me

this is why i love kasey

oh my god nothing hurts worse than recognizing oneself in the cringeposting of another

that is the essence of cringe anyway as established by Natalie Wynn (2020)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa not good not good at all

they're calling her the most adhd kitten alive

i should probably put more effort into femininity if my preference is she/her now

(me referring to myself in the third person a single time and feeling like she is apt: this is my preference now)

revealed preference enjoyers when the preferences i reveal are confusing

okay fine it was me, i'm the reason the 4 month old account sentiment dipped

im smurfing tho

i dont know the date i started hrt, sometime in october 2024

i think it was probably the 22nd

(at least the week of)

i should record myself having conversations with people sometimes because its cute when i get expressive about text on the screen

but of course im not allowed to know its being recorded because then i'll act different

in a month or two i'd like to read something about "agreeableness"

i've been starting my weekend days later but i'm not too bothered i guess

Spirit that knows itself as Spirit

OMG slime girls going to the World Spirit summit

stop reading tertiary literature bro its bad for ur soul

does it still count as tertiary literature if they don't even have their own herman diamond

i'm an informed reader ma'am look inside uninformed reader

shot, chaser

when u have read 11 things in your life and decide its a good idea to start a blog

(me as hell)