#Concepts

A short thread on how LANGUAGE has been used against us. Why do we use words to mean the opposite of their definition? Have you ever used the word “sick”
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1. Reverse-engineer what you read. If it feels like good writing, what makes it good? If it’s awful, why? 2. Prose is a window onto the world. Let your readers
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Yes, that's right, I'm a philosopher, and my job is analysing concepts and their relations.And the thing is Oz, clinical psychology and psychiatry and very often not about analysing actual
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Philosophers on Twitter getting push back about The Letter: here are some candidate actions, and some evaluations (by me) of those actions (thread): i) Say nothing, refuse to engageEvaluation: You
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@johnpauldickson @mbird12 @mpjensen @matthewmoffitt @mattaroney @mncalder @ErringtonA Random question, but is there such a thing as 'Anglican theology'? What/who constitutes it, or is it more a community of practice and
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I once inherited a unit on Ancient Egypt that I would consider “knowledge-rich”. Teachers had identified all of the things the students were to know by the end of the
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What is the relationship between causes at different levels of emergence? (where am I wrong?) /1https://twitter.com/micahtredding/status/1303154643829239808 Before we delve into the beautiful idea of emergence I should say something about
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As someone that spends quite a lot of time thinking about NLP in the context of legal information, I often find myself feeling slightly jealous (for want of a better
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Sometimes I think that analytical philosophy is intrinsically harmful to political theory. (This is *not* a defense of continental philosophy! I was educated in continental programs, but have pretty decisively
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Uhm... so... this is not cool.https://twitter.com/ParallaxStella/status/1339003193368346626 Lots of replies of the same kind so I’ll just reply here instead of to every single person.Yes, this came from creative mode but
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Okay I’m a graphic designer/art student. I want to preface I have nothing against SJ at all and I stan both boy groups and girl groups. I’m speaking about design,
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I'm really excited that this paper is finally out (+ open access). This was the main project I worked on for three years as a postdoc: trying to figure out
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Constantly challenge your own concepts."What is ________ after all?"I struggled for DECADES with the concept of 'work'. Work was supposed to be hard and unfulfilling, preferably inside a grey cubicle
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A clear cut understanding of concepts is needed, if we want to implement mathematics around it. If a student understands what is a zener diode and all the history and
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Rebirth and recollection are two important concepts for Platonic epistemology (theory of knowledge), known as μετεμψύχωσις (metempsychosis, usually translated as "transmigration of souls") and ἀνάμνησις (anam
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The 2014 Chiefs were the first team since 1964 to play a full 16-game szn w/ 0 TD passes to WRs. An ignorant mind (like me) would assume their OC
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