#pragmatism — Public Fediverse posts
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On a sunny note...
So far... a 'fair and balanced' cartoon feed today, between florid #TrumpVirus #insanity and 'better angels' of #democracy - and #DogDays
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
EXPEDIENCY, n. The father of all virtues.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Expediency,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-06-07)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/85383…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #convenience #excuse #expediency #justification #opportunism #pragmatism #rationale #selfinterest #selfjustification #virtue
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I've been reading #Horkheimer as my vacation book (real light reading, huh?), and it really strikes me of that all the problems that #fascism exploited, many of them are related to why #AI sucks.
In Horkheimer's view, the Nazis were able come along because society had already abandoned absolute truths and turned into #pragmatism & #positivism defining #philosophy instead of the other way around.
Today, we're basing our future on #probabilisticcomputing .. 🙈
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My new essay Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning is now archived with a DOI.
I argue that what passes as “objectivity” is consensus disguised as granite. Truth is rhetorical, morality prescriptive, and our real obligation is care: tending the scaffolding we walk on.
Read the full essay (open access):
👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195641#Philosophy #MetaEthics #SocialEpistemology #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #Morality #pschology #society #social