book / uses
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
“Yes, I’ve never — when I was 18 or whatever it was, I read The Open Society and I read The Logic of Scientific Discovery and each one, there’s a cool idea.”
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Elijah Millgram
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book / uses
The Open Society
“Yes, I’ve never — when I was 18 or whatever it was, I read The Open Society and I read The Logic of Scientific Discovery and each one, there’s a cool idea.”
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01 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of The Open Society. Mentions personal use of The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
“Yes, I’ve never — when I was 18 or whatever it was, I read The Open Society and I read The Logic of Scientific Discovery and each one, there’s a cool idea.”
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02 / uncertainty
His last book was horrifically awful. I don’t know if I want to blame it on the institution .
“His last book was horrifically awful. I don’t know if I want to blame it on the institution .”
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03 / belief
You won’t be surprised to hear that if there’s a domain in which I think I have a special experience, meaning experience that most people don’t have, it’s in philosophy.
“You won’t be surprised to hear that if there’s a domain in which I think I have a special experience, meaning experience that most people don’t have, it’s in philosophy.”
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04 / preference
” I mean, I can read way faster than I can hear, and if I zone out for a moment when I’m reading, I can just go back, but if I zone out while they’re giving the talk, I can’t raise my hand and say, “Can you just repeat the last five minutes?
“” I mean, I can read way faster than I can hear, and if I zone out for a moment when I’m reading, I can just go back, but if I zone out while they’re giving the talk, I can’t raise my hand and say, “Can you just repeat the last five minutes?”
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05 / commitment
I feel that I can’t have opinions unless I’ve worked for them and I can back them up, and that means that unless I’ve done my homework, unless I have an argument for the opinion, I don’t have it — so I don’t.
“I feel that I can’t have opinions unless I’ve worked for them and I can back them up, and that means that unless I’ve done my homework, unless I have an argument for the opinion, I don’t have it — so I don’t.”
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06 / commitment
I’ve never been able to take a stand on that, mostly because there’s this moment in Robert Nozick’s discussion of the Newcomb paradox.
“I’ve never been able to take a stand on that, mostly because there’s this moment in Robert Nozick’s discussion of the Newcomb paradox.”
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07 / evaluation
This is really, really basic, but I think people don’t pay attention to their own experience.
“This is really, really basic, but I think people don’t pay attention to their own experience.”
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08 / evaluation
There’s a lot of that, but I think the other thing that is being overrated is what you think you already know about what’s important and what matters.
“There’s a lot of that, but I think the other thing that is being overrated is what you think you already know about what’s important and what matters.”
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09 / commitment
And her argument has changed and the view has changed, but not to agree with me. But she has an objection to my view and my argument, and I take the point.
“And her argument has changed and the view has changed, but not to agree with me. But she has an objection to my view and my argument, and I take the point.”
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10 / recommendation
I think we can learn from him because, in a lot of ways, we haven’t caught up to what he was doing.
“I think we can learn from him because, in a lot of ways, we haven’t caught up to what he was doing.”
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11 / evaluation
The way a lot of philosophers make up their minds about things is they consider some question and then they find an argument, and if the argument seems like it gets them a conclusion, that’s enough for them: they stop, because they can’t think of any more arguments.
“The way a lot of philosophers make up their minds about things is they consider some question and then they find an argument, and if the argument seems like it gets them a conclusion, that’s enough for them: they stop, because they can’t think of any more arguments.”
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