The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

been called a sophist a couple times in memory, once in a more friendly fashion and once less so, and in the latter case i didn't really know what they were trying to say about me besides "you don't think the same things are important as i do" so i poked around the concept a bit

and it seems like all you really need to do is consider the truth value of propositions to be context-dependent (or possibly to consider truth values between 0 and 1 to exist). and it's like, damn, son, that's where we're gonna draw the line on this big-ass snarl word?

like, to be a ~real philosopher~ you have to be a whiny child who wants to go live in Mathematical-and-or-Biblical-Certainty Neverland forever, and if a mean person tells you you can't then they're a sophist? and this is what we've been lionizing all this time? thefuckouttaheah

i.e. all categorical reasoning is tautological because you're just palming a card by hiding the context dependence of the outcome in the boundary conditions of the category true Scotsmen all the way downhttps://twitter.com/Baalren/status/1296491306013929473 …

"Cafeteria style philosopher" is the insult most used against me I think. Also intellectual coward

does cafeteria style philosopher mean picking one a la carte item from over here, one from over there? because wow am i into that

Yeah.

guess we should be sporadically showing up for the Dilettantes' Club meetings but not really making it a big part of our lives