It’s kind of depressing, because I realized that he’s actually cheating, and at some level I think he knew he was.
A great philosopher is someone who is wrong in a very interesting way.
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The integers have the *most* metaphysically mysterious ontology of anything, not the least!pic.twitter.com/tTJK4v5N1T
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@themattsimpson I’m with Stove on this one. http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html … i.e. nope nope nope
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Yes, I guess even the best philosophers are wrong about almost everything!
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Notably including Stove… I love that paper but it’s completely wrong and a post shredding it is near the front of my queue
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@drjuliashaw do i detect a subtle burnThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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interesting; say more about “encodings”?
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Pretty sure. I mean psychoanalyzing him based on the one paper is super dubious,
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but once you look at the argument really carefully, you see that it’s wrong, and he’s gone to a lot of work to hide that,
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Yeees… I think his case would have been much harder to make if he’d chosen a coffee pot as his example instead of 3.
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