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
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
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)
i’m mindful of being overwhelming though. i’m generally fairly unobtrusive as guests go i think but it’s still a lot to have someone in your space. i hope she’ll lmk when she needs space
if you’re going to open a dozen high prio issues in a day asking me to do your job for you, could you at least do me the decency of not having chatgpt write them for you
watched a stoicism influencer be like “you think you’re the first person to live through rough political times? people have always lived in shitty times, you gotta just focus up and do what’s in your control to make it through” and cited socrates as an example
dawg they killed his ass wdym 😭
lol i knew i liked this video a lot, there are so many fun things going on. this is exactly what i mean when i speak of my favorite genre of academic, someone with a lot of accumulated anecdotes and knowledge from their study
“i couldn’t do that research today. my political dispositions haven’t changed along with the rest of the country, i’ve become more polarized and more extreme in my positions, and i couldn’t be as open-minded today, i’d be more offended”
“ideally you’d go in receptive instead of resentful. but because i’m aware of who funds which politics in this state and have seen such devastation, so up close in precisely the worlds i care about the most, im not in the right place to do something with people i consider hellbent on ruination”
“i do work on post-genocidal states, and i come from a place where people who commit genocide are understandable and explainable and can be forgiven and are people exactly like me. i have a much harder time right here right now because i live in this state”
oh my god i love her
“the question you’re asking comes from a specific paradigm that values quantitative research over qualitative. the notion of bias as somehow skewing data comes out of number being impervious but human bias screwing with things”