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Perpetually Horny | Anti-intellectual | Dumbo | Nobody's Favorite | Allegiance to the best argument and whoever propounds it.
Aug 29 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
Hmm, I am not familiar with the work of Carlos Williams or Donne mentioned in the first paragraph.

However, I will attempt an exegesis of the second paragraph, taking as my starting point the locus classicus from Galileo: Image In The Assayer, as quoted above, Galileo famously calls mathematics the “language of science.”

The metaphor rests on a difference between two forms of symbolism: math is an artificial language, while English is a natural one, relying on words and grammar rather than ratios,
Aug 20 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Your question is precisely the problem. Its affirmation was espoused by the now-defenestrated logical positivists.

Logical positivists (early 20th century thinkers like Carnap, Schlick, and others of the Vienna Circle) believed you could solve this problem by verificationism: That is, a statement is meaningful if and only if it can be empirically verified (tested through observation/experiment).

By parity of reasoning, they thought one could draw a strict boundary between science (verifiable) and pseudo-science/metaphysics (non-verifiable).
May 5 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Language, thought and life form an irreducible unity.

Languages are living organisms. Infinitely complex, but organisms nevertheless. They have in them a certain life-force, and certain powers of absorption and growth. Like organisms, they also decay… and die. Voices are, perhaps, the most manifestly and directly reflexive powers were adorned with. The possibility of duplicity—of doubling and even concealing the doubling can’t be excluded.

But when you speak with your own voice, or even attest that it’s your voice that is speaking…
Apr 19 • 32 tweets • 7 min read
1. ANY MEANING, at all, be it of the sacred, profane, hypotheses, any categories and whatnot arise from that of the contemplating mind’s archetypal encounter with “nature” as you call it.

Telescoping it to only the sacred is to miss a point that’s positively abyssal in size. An “indifferent” universe is a wild, gratuitous assumption, even given our current knowledge of Quantum Mechanics which highlights the debates between Schrödinger and Heisenberg on the role of the observer.
Feb 9 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Let’s consider an example from physics.

1. A ball dropped from the top of a tower falls straight to the ground and lands at the tower’s base.

From #1 observable “fact”, Aristotelian-Ptolemaic geocentric cosmology can be affirmed, that is, the earth isn’t rotating on its axis. OTOH, Galileo, Newton, and Copernicus interpret the same fact differently. Qua the principle of inertia, if the ball was already moving eastward with the Earth at the moment of release, it would continue moving eastward at the same velocity, keeping pace with the tower.
Jun 9, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This isn’t an intellectual stance. It’s a cop-out mechanism. Skepticism is a kind of relativism, it reduces all element of absoluteness to doubtfulness; while making illogical exception for skepticism itself.

It nullifies itself because if true; by its own method, it can’t prove itself to be true but a good legerdemain by its wielder.
Jun 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The atrocious banality of this take.

Data or statistics can’t establish a one-way causation of the proposed effect.

More precisely, one set of data is open to multiple interpretations, oftentimes, leading to diametrically opposed conclusions.

Classic post-hoc ergo propter hoc. More importantly, personal experiences does INVALIDATES data.

Data are abstracted from personal experiences, it detaches the subjectivity from the experience
(objectivisation) and abstracts experiences in the most general terms— numbers(quantity devoid of quality & meaning).
Jun 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Ah, the liberal fiction. The promise was that of neutral institutions that would allow for a society free of competing moral visions.

The conflicts around essential questions about religion/ultimate meaning could be put aside allowing different groups to work together in the marketplace.

What a dream.
Sep 24, 2019 • 41 tweets • 14 min read
You kept mentioning “training” as a magic word, so perhaps, I should give you a genesis of how it started, where it went wrong, and where your assumptions are wrong and the pain this sort of misconceptions/miscommunication caused fellows.

The way you put it, it seems you are... seeing Andela is a one-way street, they only do favors for the fellows, and the fellows put it 0 or no effort.

Andela actually started a training school, they took in young Nigerians with little or no programming experience and trained them for software development, heck...