Right, let's do the second thread of the night. "That was yesterday you said it," you say? Maybe for you, but I haven't slept yet. Joseph de Maistre's "Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon" CHAPTER TWELVE The General Goal of Bacon's Philosophy
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Last time, we got some extremely woke takes clouds to go with Bacon's general vibe of "scientific heremetic animism." Today we begin documenting just how things went so disastrously wrong.pic.twitter.com/0zXXxS9YDU
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Maistre notes a point that positivists tend to ignore: the character of a scholar will impact his studies. Realising this is called "Virtue Epistemology."pic.twitter.com/vP1JfeE3O7
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Maistre, of course, documented nearly all of this in previous chapters (except the microscope thing, amazing) and now he's zooming out to the big picture all of this paints.pic.twitter.com/BrXq93Osf0
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Also, as is now tradition, I take a moment once a thread to pray for the souls of Bacon's French translators.pic.twitter.com/L7Vwcz7XI1
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Another reminder: Francis Bacon hated math with the fervour of a bad Disney tween sitcom protagonist. And now, it's time for a list of things that Bacon wanted SCIENCE™ to accomplish. Are you ready?pic.twitter.com/hI7kEFk5FF
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i can't believe it, Maistre had the balls to call out Bacon as a S**t scientist, especially by today's standards, ABSOLUTE MADMAN!
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