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“For instance, Hume genuinely believed that the way to gain “the suffrages of the people” was for a politician to “make himself useful, by his industry, capacity, or knowledge.” Was he… a moron? Did he… talk like a fag? No, his work is a product of its time and place – the Whig aristocracy of
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Sometimes I have it at the tip of my tongue, and then I lose all of it. It’s a nightmare, to be quite honest. It’s not simple wanting to be the product of something that people cannot even acknowledge exists, should exists, and should be increased. Related to whatever aesthetic from this era I so
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With DoD’s defeats in Iraq, State smells blood and entertains a vague hope of capturing this pesky varmint alive, the same fate it meted out to CIA in the ’70s. (Unless you’ve been in a cave for the last five years, you may have chortled a little at how the scourge of Chile, Iran and
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People are NOT going to, at least in modern times going to go to a European for broad counsel concerning civilizational matter unless of course he is an american, the tendency to look to our english friends as consuls of last resort, that is an era that im afraid has certainly ended. Only a
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1571134638/ref=s9_wish_gw_g14_i6_r?ie=UTF8&colid=2MTGRBNZWC0Q7&coliid=I12LRISSUFGY5Q&fpl=fresh&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=W4YP090FX05TYMDM07J6&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=a6aaf593-1ba4-4f4e-bdcc-0febe090b8ed&pf_rd_i=desktop Cool book, “In the early nineteenth century, German intellectuals such as Novalis, Schelling, and Friedrich Schlegel, convinced that Germany’s cultural origins lay in ancient India, attempted to reconcile these origins with their imagined destiny as saviors of a degenerate Europe, then shifted from ‘Indomania’ to Indophobia when the attempt foundered. The philosophers
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I don’t consider it that big of a deal to comment on this book as imho the stereotypical content of this book has been much too exhausted, i wish to give an erratic commentary for threads that was missed, but in my opinion the expiration date of this book is much past due, however with
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What happened to all this epistemology when it concerns the bread and butter issue of why statistical experiments are not replicating and if it is a set of reasons why is there not more a hurrah over it, is this a party that i’m not invited to? I think not, I’d love to hear more
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“Measurement does not necessarily mean progress. Failing the possibility of measuring that which you desire the lust for measurement may, for, example, merely result in your measuring something else – and perhaps forgetting the difference – or in your ignoring some things because they cannot be measured.” — Udny Yule in a letter to Maurice
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“Richard Dawkins, in his statement about the number of Nobels granted to Moslems, showed a total ignorance of probability. A primitive violation. You never get an idea about the mean from measuring the tail (number of Nobels per capita). The “tail”, the extreme, depends mostly on the variance and is very sensitive in the mean.
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I just realized that when I see news in europe that “X Far right party has won” and then other reports of the same calibur, I forget to treat it as if it were our media, which lies and heavily distorts the truth, so it probably means “X Moderate party has won” and that things