How do you prefer to understand an old idea?
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@GabrielDuquette@vgr only reading "state of the art" you miss some ideas altogether or get them mistranslated & mangled1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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@GabrielDuquette@vgr think about how bad social science is right now - common delusion that our ancestors were dumb, myth of progress3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
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@GabrielDuquette@vgr then you read Veblen, William James, Plato, and go oh hmm (not so much Newton - genuine progress in math compression)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette My usual assumption is that a good social idea grows stronger from mistranslations and other noise1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@vgr@GabrielDuquette rota used to talk about how math/physics tends toward progressive compression, while philosophy almost taboos it3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@sarahdoingthing @GabrielDuquette Compression wrong standard for philosophy. Expansion to cover novelty, even at expense of coherence is it
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