#ipse

[nooradeservedbetter]

ghali comunque unico milanese che si salva dopo la rivoluzione

[sweetbearfan]

- La scienza non è democratica; la scienza non si avvale di ipse dixit: una questione non è vera in base a chi la dica, ma soltanto in base a prove - Io sono laureato in X e lavoro da anni come ricercatore: tu che esperienza hai per dire ciò che dici? - Ti rispondo che non hai capito nulla della scienza e anche tu sei un altro "coglione con la laurea" che si va ad aggiungere agli altri "abbiamo salvato molte vite con i vaccini" (perché morti e lesionati per noi sono solo topi, mica persone, eh)

[probablygayattorneys]

Great job to everyone at @phoenixwrightzine ! Everything is insanely high quality and I can’t wait to get a closer look!

[ross-nekochan]

Cari giapponesi,

Sappiate che per come stong mo, un poco di mix LIBERATO-GEOLIER-MADAME messo proprio A CANNONE per i prossimi mesi estivi non ve lo leva NESSUNO.

Yoroshiku.

[idlyingabout]

IT CAME HOME AHHHHHHH @phoenixwrightzine

[morality-or-chains]

Closed Starter For @lostwcnderlands Setting: Saint Helena, California Muse: Chateau 'Chatty' Delacourt -- FC Sasha Luss

Today is another interview day, Chatty has always been a big fan of interview days. Though she can never seem to wrap her mind around why she has so many, and why her court companions never stick around for very long. She only threw that candle at one of them -- only the one time! And that other time with the knife was a complete misunderstanding! Truly! She was only pretending.

They always do interviews in the southern sitting room, because she likes the way the sheer white of the curtains make her look like Daisy Buchanan. Though Greyson did ask her to please stop putting her legs up in the air like Daisy does because it sends the wrong message on what kind of companion they're hiring for.

She still does it occasionally if only to give him more grey hairs, but she's on her best behavior today and wearing her favorite blue dress that cascades around her in flowing waves like water. She sits patiently waiting for the singular interviewee to arrive so she can figure out who they are and where they fit into her story.

They must fit in somewhere. Alice has so many friends, so many spots to fill. And Greyson can only be the White Rabbit and Bryce the Cheshire Cat, vanishing in and out of her life with a smile. This one, this one is going to fit in somewhere perfect, she can just feel it!

[falllacies-in-posts]

fallacy of composition- assuming that something true of a part of a whole (erections in corpses and those with ED) must be true of the whole (Biological sexual arousal responses)

cherry picking- using individual cases (induced erections in those with ED and corpses) to confirm a whole position, while ignoring other data that may contradict or weaken this position (other chemical injections may cause erections, histamine is involved in many non- allergy processes)

hasty generalization- basing a broad conclusion (one about all sexual arousal) on a small or unrepresentative sample (some induced erections)

Fallacy of the single cause- it is assumed that there is one simple cause of an outcome (histamine) when in reality it may have been caused by a number of causes 'working together'

ipse dixit- a claim that is presented as true with literally no proof or argument as to why (violence, anxiety, etc. being caused by allergies)

[zibaldone-di-pensieri]

Oggi ho voglia di fare polemica.

Un po' in tutto il mondo, vanno di moda quelle "storie" in cui una persona che adesso è famosa, da giovane veniva critica perché non possedeva chissà quale talento o bravura in quello che fa adesso e per cui è famosa, succede anche per i libri o per altra roba.

Queste storie fanno sì che la gente si stupisca perché adesso quella persona è famosa e riconosciuta a livello nazionale o internazionale, quindi com'è stato possibile che da giovane qualcuno diceva che fosse senza talento? Che fosse un niente di speciale ?

Beh il fatto è che, magari ancora tutt'ora è così per davvero, voi dite di no perché questa suddetta persona adesso è famosa, è un vip, una celebrità, senza soffermarsi più di tanto su ciò che effettivamente fa per lavoro, cioè il metro di giudizio è la fama e questo è un po' il classico problema del - ipse dixit - una cosa che io odio particolarmente, perché in questa società si acquista credibilità e si ha più ragione degli altri, in base alla popolarità.

Se lo dice tizio che è famoso, allora va bene, probabilmente è vero, se lo dici tu che non sei nessuno e non ti conosce nessuno allora è falso.

Si analizza la popolarità, non ciò che viene detto, cioè la persona, non il messaggio.

Un po' come quando la gente sui social, un tv o sui palchi, per esprimere un messaggio si mette ad urlare, questo è anche psicologia, più urli e più hai ragione, chi urla di più è colui che sa le più grandi verità del mondo, soprattutto in politica.

Tutti noi abbiamo un parente o un amico che sembra tanto bravo a cantare, a giocare a calcio, a nuotare, a ballare, a fare qualsiasi altra cosa, però non è famoso, è una persona comune, quindi praticamente il suo valore è nullo, non è neanche lontanamente paragonabile a un ballerino della tv, a un calciatore di serie a, a un nuotatore olimpico, perché questa gente è famosa, va in tv.

Dovremmo concentrarci meno sugli individui e più sui concetti che nascono dalle loro menti.

[blackpanther371]

(Andreas Rauscher)

[solidwaterworld]

Volevo che era vero.

[pazzoincasamatta]

Matteo Salvini: «Se a questi signori (riferito ai membri dell’ECRI, ndr) piacciono tanto Rom e clandestini, se li portino tutti a casa loro a Strasburgo».

l'ECRI ci chiama fascisti senza dirci che siamo fascisti.

le code di paglia, senza nessuna sorpresa, si sono subito alzate tutte (signor Presidente, che fa?)

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Words You Always Have to Look Up

Nonplussed

Means “perplexed.”

But there is a further point of confusion that can send someone to the dictionary: since the mid-20th century, nonplussed has been increasingly used to mean “unimpressed” or “unsurprised,” and this use, though often considered an error, has made the confident deployment of this word a fraught issue for many.

Anodyne

Sometimes words sort of seem to telegraph their meaning: pernicious sounds like a bad thing rather than a good thing, and beatific sounds like something to be desired as opposed to something to be avoided.

This is all fairly subjective, of course, but the sounds of words can have an effect on how we perceive them.

Anodyne doesn’t give us many clues in that way. It turns out that anodyne is a good thing: it means “serving to alleviate pain” or “innocuous,” from the Greek word with similar meanings.

Supercilious

Used to describe people who are arrogant and haughty or give off a superior attitude.

It comes from the Latin word meaning “eyebrow,” and was used in Latin to refer to the expression of arrogant people, and this meaning was transferred to English.

Amusingly, the word supercilious was added to some dictionaries in the 1600s—a time when many Latin words were translated literally into English—with the meanings “pertaining to the eyebrows” or “having great eyebrows.”

Stochastic

In scientific and technical uses, it usually means “involving probability” or “determined by probability,” and is frequently paired with words like demand, model, processing, and volatility.

Comes from the Greek word meaning “skillful at aiming,” which had become a metaphor for “guessing.”

It’s a term that had long been used by mathematicians and statisticians, and has come into more public discourse with stochastic terrorism, the notion that accusations or condemnations of a person or group can lead to violence against that person or group. This allows those who make the initial accusations to seem innocent from any specific violent act, but stochastic terrorism is a way to identify the motives for such an attack as being set in motion by the words of another person.

Anathema

Means “something or someone that is strongly disliked”.

Initially used to refer to a person who had been excommunicated from the Catholic church.

Came from Greek through Latin into English with the meaning of “curse” or “thing devoted to evil,” but today refers to anything that is disapproved of or to be avoided.

There is a strangeness about the way this word is used in a sentence. Because anathema is usually used without an or the, as in “raincoats are anathema to high fashion” or “those ideas are anathema in this class” it may seem just odd enough to send people to the dictionary when they encounter it.

Bemused

So close in sound to amused that they have blended together in usage, but they started as very different ideas: bemused originally meant “confused” or “bewildered,” a meaning stemming from the idea of musing or thinking carefully about something, which may be required in order to assess what isn’t easy to understand.

Many people insist that “confused” is still the only correct way to use bemused, but the joining of meanings with amused has resulted in the frequent use of this word to mean “showing wry or tolerant amusement,” a shade of meaning created from the combination.

Words with meanings that seem to crisscross or intersect are sure to send us to the dictionary.

Solipsistic

Means “extremely egocentric” or “self-referential.”

Comes from the Latin roots solus ("alone," the root of sole) and ipse ("self").

As this Latinate fanciness implies, this is a word used in philosophical treatises and debates.

The egocentrism of solipsism has to do with the knowledge of the self, or more particularly the theory in philosophy that your own existence is the only thing that is real or that can be known.

Calling an idea or a person solipsistic can be an insult that identifies a very limited and usually self-serving perspective, or it can be a way to isolate one’s perspective in a useful way.

It’s a word with an abstract meaning, which is a good reason to check that meaning from time to time.

Tautology

A needless or meaningless repetition of words or ideas.

It’s a word about words that can be used in academic writing or as a hifalutin way of saying “redundancy,” as in “a beginner who just started learning.”

Since we value both clarity and originality, especially in writing, tautology is a word that usually carries a negative connotation and is used as a way to criticize a poorly formed sentence or a poorly argued position.

Perspicacious

The ability to see clearly is a powerful metaphor for being able to understand something.

Being perspicacious means having an ability to notice and understand things that are difficult or not obvious, and it comes from the Latin verb meaning “to see through.”

Means “perceptive,” and is often used along with words that have positive connotations like witty, clever, wise, alert, and insightful (another word that uses seeing as a metaphor for understanding).

Peripatetic

Means “going from place to place,” and comes from the Greek word that means “to walk.”

You can say someone who moves frequently has a “peripatetic existence,” or someone who has changed careers several times has had a “peripatetic professional trajectory.”

The root word “to walk” is usually more of a metaphor in the modern use of this word—it means frequent changes of place, yes, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are wearing out your shoes.

The original use of this word did use “walking” as a more literal image, however: it was a description of the way that the philosopher Aristotle preferred to give lectures to his students while walking back and forth, and the word has subsequently taken on a more metaphorical meaning.

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[pbj913]

I graduated from the University of Georgia’s Destination Dawgs program last May

[antonomase]

@sans-rancune-sans-regrets

Everyone’s heard of “pretend you’re dating me for this family event so that my relatives stop asking mr why I’m single” but I need somebody to write “pretend you’re dating me because you’re exactly the kind of person my family would HATE and I want to annoy them”

[chetipo]