"That which is superior had grown too great in spirit for pleasure among men, and to this day no one’s strong enough for the highest joys..." Friedrich Hölderlin

Reasoning is a messy empirical process runing on flawed wetware. pete wolfendale (@deontologistics) Speaking as a philosopher, I think people tend to have an overly deductive picture of how reasoning works, i.e., as the inexorable unfurling of the consequences of a given set of premises, rather than a search process over syntactic objects with that serial structure. — #m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nitter.net/deontologistics/status/2056282257506402776#m

I want to make a cartoon using slop-motion animation.

Schrodinger has an interesting remark about how, because Leucippus and Democritus faced the exact issue (aporia) of continuity as Planck and Einstein, their work is the foundation of quantum theory - seen as a lineage on this particular puzzle of Nature.

Continental philosophy implies the existence of oceanic philosophy.

Liberation is possible only witin the christian tradition, as the great fight against it.

Never pay attention, take attention debt.

Can you reduce all of political philosophy to one diagram? A pretty good attempt. (From a book on Machiavelli by Gabriele Pedulla.)

For every pathology an intellectual framework of its own.

The Helmholtz decomposition is one of the fundamental results of vector calculus. It says any well-behaved vector field can be split into two parts, one capturing sources and sinks through divergence, and one capturing rotation through curl. Video

"Even Homer will be forgotten." ~ Ernst Jünger

Reasoning unmoored from reflection is delusion.

Mix logic with ontology? You're doing metaphysics. Abstract it away? Still metaphysics? Ignore representative function completely. Metaphysics. Write a grocery note. Believe it or not, still metaphysics.

doing some light katabasis

That's it. I'm reifying myself.

this is how actual philosophy looks like in the wild

You're X, your enemy is Y. You start calling Y a non-X, but this unites all your enemies with Y. Why would anyone do this? And why is it happening so often?

there is no transformation problem if you don't care

writing black/purple prose