#Philosophyblr

[friend-of-wisdom]

Oh, to be a bookworm!

[dvstgatherer]

cemetery walk / antique edition of a plato in the original greek i was mesmerised by in my favorite place in the city a few months ago

[crazyonce]

books i want to finish reading / rereading before december

[captainsvscaptains]

Battle of the Ships

Round 2 Part 4 Poll 2

Ship of Theseus :

The ship Theseus used to travel back from Crete after slaying the minotaur. Is commemorated and repaired for centuries after.

It's the original ship of Theseus! ...or is it, anymore? If it is, what makes it so? And if it isn't, when did it stop being that?

Temeraire :

"He's a uuhhhhhhh dragon. Almost guaranteed to not be qualified, but I figured I'd take a shot for him; forgive me for the time-wasting.

While he's more of a 'plane' technically I guess, his captain is a navy captain, he's named after the original ship 'Temeraire', and something like 75% at least of the books takes place on/around navy ships... Plus he likes swimming so I guess in a way he's a sea-faring vessel??

As far as looks go; big-ass black dragon."

This ship has Opinions and hates racists and Napoleon Bonaparte.

[sexerxes]

I'm the utility monster Robert Nozick referred to btw. The mundane makes me cum

[oneandocey]

We are more than sisyphus

To compare us to the figure of old is robbery,

His task is one of monotony yes,

But there is reassurance in that,

No external factors or randomness,

That's not what life is,

Singular as it might sometimes be,

It is chaos incarnate,

We are not damned to a lonesome demise like he is,

Neither do we posess the grace of eternity,

How comforting it would be to just have to push.

[studentbyday]

going through my ReadEra and came across deep work which i hardly ever read. decided to skip to parts that seemed relevant to me instead of reading front to back. and. i love this quote: "I felt that I still existed despite not having shared documentary evidence of said existence on the Internet."

it would be nice to achieve that.

ironic that i say that as i type up a tumblr post.

what makes a person feel like they exist?

often, when i'm drowning in schoolwork, i eventually stop feeling like a human. do you know what i'm talking about?

[thehumanfront]

There’s Never Enough Time

A personal one today …

Are you always busy? Then maybe it’s time to rest.

As Nietzsche wrote in Why Am I So Wise?:

‘Almost too fiercely dost thou rush, for me, thou spring of joyfulness! And ofttimes dost thou empty the pitcher again in trying to fill it.

‘And yet must I learn to draw near thee more humbly. Far too eagerly doth my heart jump to meet thee.

‘My heart, whereon my summer burneth, my short, hot, melancholy, over-blessed summer: how my summer heart yearneth for thy coolness!

‘Farewell, the lingering affliction of my spring! Past is the wickedness of my snowflakes in June! Summer have I become entirely, and summer noontide!’

You can read the article here.

[neoclassicalblobphilosopher]

Reddit r u ok

[pomegranateandcoffee]

On the Genealogy of Morality— Friedrich Nietzsche

[friend-of-wisdom]

photos of the first week as a Masters student in Philosophy!

[dvstgatherer]

[crazyonce]

craving hume and a cigarette

[dkl9]

Pure logical argument weakens claims

In formal logic, the law of addition says that, from true proposition P, you can correctly conclude P∨Q, for any propositions P and Q.

...

P∨Q is weaker (less strict) than just P. This is true, but it's not unique to the law of addition. Every fundamental logical law produces conclusions at most as strong as its inputs, and often weaker.

...

Logical work just helps to interpret the set of worlds your observations accept as options. If pure logic could rule out possible worlds, you might rule out the one true world and not know it, thereby missing the point of valid argument.

Logic is still useful sith a weak claim focused on what we care about (like the mortality of Socrates) is often more useful than a more precise claim with confusingly irrelevant details (like the humanity of Socrates and the mortality of humans).

Applying modus ponens, conjunctive simplification, or syllogism doesn't get rid of the strong input claims P, P∧Q, or P→Q, respectively — they don't diminish your total knowledge — but addition just as well keeps around the original P, and to ignore that is to judge logical laws by different standards.

[glitterishmagnus]

hey there!

i'm not gonna pretend like i'm new here, i've actually spent majority of my adolescence on here so i'm probably older than many of you and that's okay!! i just rediscovered this space as a place in which i could express myself and my various interests, together with my work, my hopes and dreams.

i would love to transform this place into a studyblr/filmblr/philosophyblr/physicsblr/mathblr and much more!!

i hope to become part of this community and maybe interact with many of you!! so, without further ado, here are some facts about myself:

i'm italian pizza pasta mafia

i'm in my first year of university even though i'm much older than what i should be

i'm getting my degree in physics

i suffer from DID, even though i probably won't talk about it much on here for privacy reasons

i'm a classically trained cellist

i study korean

i love humanity and its creations

i'm a leftist

i'm a lesbian

that's about it!! i hope i'm able to make a significant impact on this community, i also hope to be welcomed and find a space to freely express myself on here. thank you for reading, see you super soon!!

[gloriaris]

is philosophyblr a thing