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C'mon man, this is just pedantic. Fair's the best model a priori as it's a pretty good approximation to the base model odds of heads vs tails close to...

I think she kept in personal contact with some members. Ask for contact details in here and maybe you'll get lucky.

Yeah. But most coins are not loaded. And many coins are flipped!

Man who upon only seeing 12 heads in a row still assumes fair coin is silly man. Man who assumes it's a double header upon only seeing 12 heads is alm...

Cakes (genus) food (species) A non-food must not be a cake, since if a non-food was cake it would indeed be food. This is because cakes are foods. Ano...

There's a similarity between a good proof and a perfect example. If you find a really good example of a structure; good meaning it exhibits all or alm...

That was my reading of the article too, yeah. In a different context the proof might look very deep.

In my view this statement is pretty much the point of the thread, the math thing was just illustrating this point. What do you think happens to the id...

I don't really think there are hinge propositions, but I adopted the vocabulary because it was appropriate. Hinge propositions, as used in philosophy,...

Can hinges be analysed in contexts in which they are not presumed? It isn't as if everything that's required to philosophise about X is required to ph...

I'm seeing something like the idea of hinge propositions in what you're writing. Hinge propositions are certainties required to partake in a discourse...

I think I can only respond to this with a question: what makes you see all the historical details I gave that make sense of the math problem I gave yo...

I don't want to climb the ladder. I don't even mind the intellectual property right shenanigans associated with universities. What I do mind is forced...

Unfortunately I generally enjoy research, and having a PhD is usually prerequisite to join research institutes less bullshit saturated than universiti...

More work whine. "this problem is easy" - advisor (asks advisor how to do it because the way i was told earlier wouldn't work, after 15 mins of discus...

UK has something similar in the grime scene with Akala, Lowkey and Wretch. But rap as social commentary is old as rap. I think it's more that politica...

I certainly know what it looks like better in maths than in philosophy. The post was meant to draw an analogy from maths to philosophy without specify...

Grumble grumble bosses return from holidays sitting on something that should take 4 weeks to do in 2 weeks. They clearly had the work drafted out befo...

You said you're unfamiliar with math. An un set up problemscape for you might be solving this integral: \int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{\frac{x^2}{2...

I'm interested in how you're thinking of 'accuracy' of an idea. If you apply it to the steps of proving a theorem, that's usually pretty banal; people...

Thanks!

I'm not gonna communicate with you better than you. But yeah, I think you're onto something. That means I have to stop now, because I can't rehearse i...

I don't want to play the Socratic authority game and I'm tired. Say what you want to say and let it stand on its own merits.

From a modern perspective, because they provide models of the same object. How they do it differs. That they do it matters, of course, but the really ...

Another interesting thread is why the real numbers are called real numbers when to the Pythagoreans they consist of immeasurable bullcrap...

You don't. They both have merits. They're open ended discussions. They're differences in emphasis that make mathematics look different depending on ho...

Nah man. While you don't see disagreements about whether a proven theorem is true or not (unless it's a proof reading or review of a paper looking for...

You don't always need repeated values corresponding to a single parameter to get a sensible estimate for that parameter; look at Gelman's analysis of ...

Oi oi, look in the 'math and motives' thread and see what you think.

In a sense I think this is an essential feature of philosophy, in a sense I think it's enforced by philosophy as an institute. This is getting close t...

Oh absolutely not. What philosophers think and how philosophers philosophise, their treatment of other philosophers and what they care about - those p...

Oh, also; I discovered a food allergy last night, got one hour's sleep and I'm running out of pile cream. I'm probably not in the best place for under...

I'm not going to assume the silly Socratic game of asserting power by questioning you on what you mean by terms, I'm responding in the way that I am p...

I'm not interested in defining philosophy when the definition of philosophy would itself be a philosophical problem. Inquiry proceeds without a satisf...

That the features we're talking about are also features of inquiry in general is largely the premise of this thread.

I mistook your intentions as a usual 'what's the point in philosophy anyway' poster, albeit an articulate one. I think you're right that it's a featur...

Maybe a more interesting question: do you think philosophy should be describing how natural processes work in general? Or does it merely use descripti...

I think it's a pretty banal point. Whether something seems like a relevant philosophical question depends a lot on from what standpoint you're doing p...

So this thread is a reattempt at 'Problems and Sense'* from @"StreetlightX" I reckon. Like Last Week Tonight getting people to have eloquent opinions ...

I don't agree with the first bit. In my book perspectives accompany frames; occupying a frame is characterised by how you navigate in and out of it; m...

Should probably phrase this in terms of occupying a frame, decision's as much part of the unfolding of things in general as it is a social and symboli...

Eh. Looks like frames all the way down to me. Wouldn't be so many philosophies of the event otherwise. I don't think you can escape the regress that's...

Picking a frame is choosing a line of flight.

Said the freeman.

You saucy fiend.

Philosophy also has this strange thing where asking questions makes other questions disappear.

p-hacking isn't really like that. The damndest thing about it is that it's almost always well motivated. If you have a dataset trying to study some fr...

There are times when you just gotta hack things together then see if it works after. Even when someone has blazed the trail in front of you they don't...

The first time I saw a non-white person in the flesh was when I was 14. Welcome to rural Scotland, please enjoy your stay.

I'm just going to leave this here. Don't play defense.