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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

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"Take care of Freedom and Truth will take care of itself." Former Ph.D. student in philosophy/logic/formal epistemology at CMU Trying and failing to prevent wildfires. he/him Website: https://philip-sink.github.io

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

31 июл., 23:34

Rigid designators.

Sanjay Srivastava

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

31 июл., 19:05

What else are they hiding from us?

Brett Karlan

Alex Byrne Alex Byrn Alex Byr Alex By Alex B Alex Alex R Alex Ra Alex Rai Alex Rail Alex Rails

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

30 июл., 07:48

Bronze age was weak. They didn't even have Darwinism.

rich traditions

the sea peoples did nothing wrong

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

30 июл., 05:02

Baked, breaded salmon.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️

Name your fav dish to cook for others.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

30 июл., 02:22

I've decided I've become a bit too bogged down reading papers and such only, so I'm going to make a serious effort to read more fiction.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

28 июл., 21:37

Determined now to write a paper that starts like this.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

"Since the dawn of time, epistemic logic has been a useful tool for representing belief and belief update." I don't even know if I'd register how silly this if I read it lmfao.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

28 июл., 20:43

There really is an art to the first sentence of an academic article. How many ways can we come up with to say "_____ is useful for _____".

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

27 июл., 22:24

Anyways I wish I knew math in 2014 because the review I'd have written of "The Imitation Game" would have been fire.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

27 июл., 22:17

Alien

Kieran Healy

"There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." Which film is this a dismissal of? Wrong answers only. I’m gonna say “Star Wars”.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

27 июл., 22:16

But what if it is a virtue nonetheless?

Jeremy Davis

if you didn't know what it meant, 'motivated reasoning' would sound like a genuine philosophical virtue

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

26 июл., 21:35

You heard it here first, folks. Stop reading Plato.

noam

It’s true, I don’t think a logician HAS to read Plato’s republic

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

24 июл., 22:19

Utilitarianism is a lot like democracy in that it's a terrible system, except in comparison with every other system, which are all worse.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

24 июл., 00:09

Hunter S. Thompson

Elizabeth Taylor

Does genuine libertarianism actually exist as a political movement? This is probably going to sound very ignorant, but like all libertarians seem to end up as ghastly reactionaries who'll happily either support or ignore right wing authoritarianism?