#Philosophyblr

[friend-of-wisdom]

Monday, May 12th 2025

This post is about what i've done since my last post, not only today. Here it is:

finished reading M. L. Rio's If We Were Villains (5/5 STARS OMFG THAT BOOK WAS DEVASTATING)

started reading Circe, by Madeline Miller (still at 10%)

yesterday read an 8-page article on psychoanalysis to prepare my group seminar

also went to the gym! i hadn't worked out in more than a week...

today, finished writing my presentation for Philosophy of Language. I hope the professor likes! I got really invested in it simply bc it was so interesting!!!!

started reading a second article on psychoanalysis

🎞️ last movie watched: A Different Man (2024)

🎵 currently listening: Vanish Into You - Lady Gaga

[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

[uolresearcherdestiny]

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Minority languages are spoken by less than 50% of the population or ones that are only rarely represented in your current region or region of heritage. Famous examples of minority languages include:

sign languages

Catalan

Basque

Irish

Welsh

Plattdeutsch

Māori

Tamil

many more indigenous languages

If you are interested in this study, would like more information about it or want to participate, feel free to contact me over here or this email dm448@student.london.ac.uk. If you scan the QR-code on the poster, it will automatically generate a message addressed to me.

If you do not fulfill the criteria but know of someone who might it would be amazing if you could share or repost this poster!

[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?

[neoclassicalblobphilosopher]

Reddit r u ok

[rottenfigfruit]

On the Genealogy of Morality— Friedrich Nietzsche

[friend-of-wisdom]

Oh, to be a bookworm!

[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