#pragmatism — Public Fediverse posts
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In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism
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Farmers and ranchers to have the RIGHT RETUREND TO THEM to process their own produce and sell it
And consumers will have the right to buy that food RETURNED TO THEM. These rights do not belong to the government. Growing and selling your own food is an inalienable right. Period. ABN
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DOJ Says Law-Abiding Americans Can Carry Guns in Public Post Offices
#conservatism #freedom #law #pragmatism #technology #weaponryThe United States Department of Justice has released a formal Office of Legal Counsel memorandum opinion clarifying that law-abiding Americans may carry constitutionally protected firearms into publicly accessible post offices for self-defense without violating federal criminal law. The opinion, dated August 12, 2026, and authored by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lanora C. Pettit, interprets 18 U.S.C. § 930(a), the longstanding prohibition on possessing firearms or other dangerous weapons in federal facilities, as not reaching ordinary self-defense carry in post offices open to the public.
Section 930(a) makes it a federal crime to knowingly possess a firearm in a federal facility, defined as a building or portion thereof owned or leased by the federal government where federal employees regularly perform official duties. Post offices clearly qualify under this definition. However, subsection (d)(3) creates an explicit exception for the “lawful carrying of firearms or other dangerous weapons in a Federal facility incident to hunting or other lawful purposes.”
The OLC concludes that self-defense constitutes a paradigmatic “lawful purpose.” Critically, the opinion holds that no special nexus is required between the reason a person enters the post office and the reason for carrying the firearm. Simply entering a public post office while lawfully armed for self-defense falls within the statutory exception.
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"[I] am flustered by a noise heard. Empirically, that noise is fearsome; it really is, not merely phenomenally or subjectively so. That is what it is experienced as being. But, when I experience the noise as a known thing, I find it to be innocent of harm. It is the tapping of a shade against the window, owing to movements of the wind. The experience has changed; that is, the thing experienced has changed…"
The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism, John Dewey, 1905
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"Experiencing like breathing is a rhythm of intakings and outgivings. Their succession is punctuated and made a rhythm by the existence of intervals, periods in which one phase is ceasing and the other is inchoate and preparing."
#pragmatism #philosophy #dewey
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/an-experience.htm
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Hello #philosophy people can I get some recommendations for books about #pragmatism ? I know Dewey wrote a few but are there any introductory texts. Some coworkers in Europe are struggling with the concept.
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"It is immensely clearer than it has ever been before that the democratic way of life commits us to unceasing effort to break down the walls of class, of unequal opportunity, of color, race, sect, and nationality, which estranges human beings from one another."
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Given his stature in philosophy, and for all its apparent incongruence, John #Dewey's "mystic experience" is surprisingly unknown. Yet its conclusion is a thing of serene beauty. He described it to Max Eastman, maybe 60 yrs after the fact, for Eastman's book 'Heroes I Have Known':
#pragmatism #instrumentalism #experimentalism
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"It is not the rise of the irrational as such...that must give pause to those who would use #intelligence as a director of instinct & passion. It is the deliberate cultivation of the irrational. For the cult is not spontaneous & natural; it is intentional & purposeful."
- John #Dewey, 1918... two days before Armistice, to be precise. -
If you've got half an hour free during the day, this is a rather interesting conversation with #philosopher, or 'metaethicist', Simon Blackburn. The discussion touches on #ethics, #pragmatism, #truth, #Rorty, #Ryle, #Nietzsche, #perspectivism, and plenty more.
In one section he cites #Russell on #Bradley, which made me think of you @PeterSjostedtH
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"By #historicism I mean the doctrine that there is no relation of "closeness of fit" between language and the world: no image of the world projected by language is more or less representative of the way the world really is than any other."
This is from #Rorty. I have to say, I do not grasp the basis for defining the specific term "historicism" in this way. It seems rather to beg the question.
@ironick17 or anyone else, any illumination?
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"An Ironist Must Learn to Listen Poetically"
"The poetic is in the listening as much as it is the speaking; it is made by the human ear as much as by the human voice. While poets are those who write or speak poetically; ironists are those who read or listen poetically."
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#Ironyhttps://erraticus.co/2023/04/24/an-ironist-must-learn-to-listen-poetically/
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Just finished this intriguing paper by @omarlizardo, in which he lays out the differences between intentional and habit(us)-based explanations of social action:
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"Government, business, art, religion, all social institutions have... a purpose[:]... to set free the capacities of human individuals... [T]he test of their value is the extent to which they educate every individual into the full stature of his possibility."
- #Dewey, Reconstruction in #Philosophy (1920) [as quoted by #Rorty (1998)].Wonder what kind of values would be returned were such tests applied to our social institutions, beginning with academia.
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"Your devotion to #democracy is unlikely to be wholehearted if you believe, as monotheists typically do, that we can have #knowledge of an "objective" ranking of human needs that can overrule the result of democratic consensus."
- Richard #Rorty (1998).Generally, I find Rorty to be a troublesome thinker, often unconcerned with revising his interpretations (as nevertheless befits his global #philosophy). This, however, is a powerful statement in favor of secularism.
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Things I never thought I'd see:
(1) Rorty labeled an "ultranationalist".
(2) Rorty writing approvingly (albeit in personal correspondence) about political assassination."Richard Rorty at Princeton: Personal Recollections" by Raymond Geuss
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The new issue of "Philosophy & Social Criticism" (Vol. 48, No. 10) features articles on pragmatism (Dewey & Rorty), including:
* "Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge" - Felix Petersen (open access)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537221114917
* "Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism?" - Martin Seeliger & Johannes Kiess (open access)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537221117097
#Philosophy @philosophy #pragmatism #Dewey #Rorty #Criticaltheory #Democracy
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Just came across this gem: Rorty tying his "anything can be made to look good or bad" back to Socrates! And the examples are fire(!): I suspect that the souls of the Aztec priests painstakingly gouging out their prisoners’ hearts and..those of the Catholic bureaucrats whose mission civilizatrice made the Congo so profitable to King Leopold, and of the Unitarian captains of the slave ships, were as harmonious as most."
- 'Robustness: A Reply to Jean Bethke Elshtain'
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"The imagination is the chief instrument of the good."
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#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.
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#Algorithm #DataStructure #GraphTheory
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#ModelTheory #ProofTheory #Semiotics
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#Grossberg #McClelland #Rumelhart
