#pragmatism — Public Fediverse posts

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

Motivational speaker: "Don't focus on negative thoughts. Instead, embrace positive ideas!"

Me: "Don't tell me what to do!"

😜

#motivational #happythoughts #rebelgirl #stubborn #pragmatism #anarchy #freethinker

Have you tuned in to our latest episode yet? In it, @xtinadlr, @fastfrwrd and @arielkroon discuss #idealism and #pragmatism - and #incrementalism, too.

We spend the first part of the episode defining terms and discussing examples, then we dive into the second half where we talk about how we think these ideas might apply (or don't) to #solarpunk.

Take a listen here: https://shows.acast.com/solarpunk-presents/episodes/810-solarpunk-presents-idealism-versus-pragmatism

#SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #episode #season8 #discussion #podcast

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

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have a dose of these vices in our composition and therefore have to excerise tact to avoid giving offence. We cannot all be saints, and if saintliness is impossible, we may at least try not to be too disagreeable.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Essay (1933-02-01) “On Tact,” New York American

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/601…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #compensation #diplomacy #disagreeability #friction #imperfection #offense #politeness #pragmatism #prudence #saint #sincerity #tact #virtue

To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics

https://theconversation.com/politicians-now-talk-of-climate-pragmatism-to-delay-action-new-study-264317; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-025-03987-4 (open access). For #climate #pragmatism, read climate #denialism, @GeraldKutney. #Badenoch & the #Tories are serving the interests of the #fossilfuel industry, not those of the #people or the #planet.

Pragmatism

Pragmatism is not so much realism as flexibility. There are a lot of ways to get from point A to point B. It doesn’t have to be a straight line. It’s just got to get you where you need to go. But so many of us spend so much time looking for the perfect solution that we pass up what’s right in front of us.

~ Ryan Holiday

slip:4a1553.

#RaymondTallis - What is #Truth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhTG7etzlc&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Logic #PhilosophyOfLogic #Assertions #States #StatesOfAffairs #Belief #JTB #JustifiedTrueBelief #Pragmatism #Minimalism #Predicate #Predicates #Relativism #Noumenal #Ontological #Kant #Kantian #DingAnSich #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#ThemeOneProgram • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/06/12/survey-of-theme-one-program-4/

A program I worked on all through the 80s aimed to develop #Algorithms and #DataStructures for integrating #EmpiricalLearning and #LogicalReasoning. I had earlier developed programs for #Learning #TwoLevelFormalLanguages and for #PropositionalLogic #ConstraintSatisfaction based on C.S. #Peirce's #LogicalGraphs. Getting those 2 faculties to work together meant integrating the ways of #Empiricism and #Rationalism.

#ThemeOneProgram #Learning #Reasoning
#Logic #LogicalGraphs #FormalLanguages
#Algorithm #DataStructure #GraphTheory
#Peirce #PragmaticSemioticInformation
#Empiricism #Rationalism #Pragmatism
#ModelTheory #ProofTheory #Semiotics
#ParallelDistributedProcessing #PDP
#Grossberg #McClelland #Rumelhart