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Aristotle, well-known for thinking about things for only 10 minutes.

Interesting. Yeah, I grew up in the 90s, so in addition to tamagotchi and pokemon, I became aware at some point about the Japanese mob.

I didn't know all the male-leaning words tbh, but it's not hard to have an educated guess that "neodymium" is probably a chemical element, thermister is probably something in physi…

I think you need to read more carefully. For example, he explicitly anticipates and puts aside some questions you ask: "In this paper, we will not be concerned with postmodernist c…

> If you multiply two numbers together, shouldn’t the result be greater than each part? I appreciate the metaphor, but... multiplication is not repeated addition.

What tools did you use to build it?

> don't really make us use math differently Even is we suppose what you're saying is correct — the goal isn't really to change how we use mathematics, but to understand what math i…

Happy to see analytic philosophy trending on HN

> I still think Plato invented Socrates. No, he was an actual historical person. Plato of course wrote a more literary depiction of him, not a direct transcript of his conversation…

I'm unsure if you've read this novel, but the translation "was to remember" actually works well here, and was probably a deliberate choice. The cycles of time are a major theme in …

Skip this one. An article written by someone who doesn't understand math, logic, or philosophy, and thinks stamping his foot and saying "general relativity" is the height of explan…

Software people with philosophy backgrounds (there are a lot of us!) will be quick to note that Grice did not intend these to be understood as rules of thumb for regular people. Bu…

As philosophers keep saying, over and over, the trolley "problem" is just a thought experiment in normative ethics about different types of moral judgment — it's not an actual prob…

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