Alethic Avenger
@alethicavenger.bsky.social
Anonymous proponent of ratiocination.
Social “facts” are often the residue of power, ritual, or repetition mistaken for necessity. [nomology/#2808] #philosophy
August 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Social “facts” are often the residue of power, ritual, or repetition mistaken for necessity. [nomology/#2808] #philosophy
The virtuous are pleasant and relatively easy on others. [areteology/#692] #philosophy
August 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The virtuous are pleasant and relatively easy on others. [areteology/#692] #philosophy
Madness can be resistance, breakdown, or retreat; and sometimes all three. [psychognosia/#2762] #philosophy
August 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Madness can be resistance, breakdown, or retreat; and sometimes all three. [psychognosia/#2762] #philosophy
A law’s clarity matters less than who interprets it. [nomotheology/#2542] #philosophy
August 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A law’s clarity matters less than who interprets it. [nomotheology/#2542] #philosophy
The agent does not ask “what is possible?” but “what am I willing to do at cost?” [autonomology/#2690] #philosophy
August 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The agent does not ask “what is possible?” but “what am I willing to do at cost?” [autonomology/#2690] #philosophy
Inner strength is not the suppression of feeling but the governance of reaction; emotion allowed to pass through without hijacking intention. [areteology/#2155] #philosophy
August 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Inner strength is not the suppression of feeling but the governance of reaction; emotion allowed to pass through without hijacking intention. [areteology/#2155] #philosophy
Philosophy is not a path to wisdom, but a method for avoiding unexamined folly. [metaphilosophy/#3077] #philosophy
August 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Philosophy is not a path to wisdom, but a method for avoiding unexamined folly. [metaphilosophy/#3077] #philosophy
Meaningful claims should be verifiable and falsifiable in principle, even if not always possible in practice. [empiriology/#192] #philosophy
August 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Meaningful claims should be verifiable and falsifiable in principle, even if not always possible in practice. [empiriology/#192] #philosophy
To act without justification is to become a brute; to need total justification is to become a ghost. [ethics/#2026] #philosophy
August 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
To act without justification is to become a brute; to need total justification is to become a ghost. [ethics/#2026] #philosophy
Even rationalists and realists must admit that their preference for reason and reality is itself a value like any other, however justified. [metaphilosophy/#1431] #philosophy
August 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Even rationalists and realists must admit that their preference for reason and reality is itself a value like any other, however justified. [metaphilosophy/#1431] #philosophy
The greatest distortions in human interaction come not from what is said or done, but from the assumptions we make to fill the void of others’ minds. [psychognosis/#2183] #philosophy
August 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The greatest distortions in human interaction come not from what is said or done, but from the assumptions we make to fill the void of others’ minds. [psychognosis/#2183] #philosophy
Language is a broken game of telephone played across millennia, each generation slightly mishearing the last. [semantics/#544] #philosophy
August 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Language is a broken game of telephone played across millennia, each generation slightly mishearing the last. [semantics/#544] #philosophy
Descartes doubted everything except the vocabulary of medieval theology; he killed God only to resurrect him as a guarantee of “clear and distinct ideas”. [metaphilosophy/#2258] #philosophy
August 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Descartes doubted everything except the vocabulary of medieval theology; he killed God only to resurrect him as a guarantee of “clear and distinct ideas”. [metaphilosophy/#2258] #philosophy
In argumentation, the question of who goes first, and who is allowed to set the frame, is often just as consequential as what is said. [polemics/#2315] #philosophy
August 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In argumentation, the question of who goes first, and who is allowed to set the frame, is often just as consequential as what is said. [polemics/#2315] #philosophy
A value should have biological functionality, psychological coherence, social utility, and a degree of epistemic fallibility. [ethics/#1039] #philosophy
August 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A value should have biological functionality, psychological coherence, social utility, and a degree of epistemic fallibility. [ethics/#1039] #philosophy
Political forms are ultimately morphologies of control, manifesting as systems which shape, reflect, and constrain action. [kratiology/#51] #philosophy
August 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Political forms are ultimately morphologies of control, manifesting as systems which shape, reflect, and constrain action. [kratiology/#51] #philosophy
Audiences in argumentation infer unstated premises, intentions, and implications, often illegitimately; a valid detail that doesn’t fit expectations may be ignored or misinterpreted. [psychognosia/#3387] #philosophy
August 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Audiences in argumentation infer unstated premises, intentions, and implications, often illegitimately; a valid detail that doesn’t fit expectations may be ignored or misinterpreted. [psychognosia/#3387] #philosophy
Argumentation fails when interlocutors cannot agree on what counts as a good reason for an inference. [logotectonics/#2309] #philosophy
August 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Argumentation fails when interlocutors cannot agree on what counts as a good reason for an inference. [logotectonics/#2309] #philosophy
The physical correlates of race are real, but no deeper biological basis for them can be found; we must conclude "race" is largely a convincing visual shorthand. [autology/#2063] #philosophy
August 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The physical correlates of race are real, but no deeper biological basis for them can be found; we must conclude "race" is largely a convincing visual shorthand. [autology/#2063] #philosophy
The inhabitants of a nation are bound by a forgivable obligation with that nation to add more than they subtract. [ethics/#1116] #philosophy
August 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The inhabitants of a nation are bound by a forgivable obligation with that nation to add more than they subtract. [ethics/#1116] #philosophy
To place “mental” in opposition to “emotional” is to adopt a spiritual ontology; the correct intended terms are “cognitive” and “affective”. [semantics/#2012] #philosophy
August 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
To place “mental” in opposition to “emotional” is to adopt a spiritual ontology; the correct intended terms are “cognitive” and “affective”. [semantics/#2012] #philosophy
Esoteric systems valorize exclusivity and convolution, not to clarify the world but to consecrate confusion. [doxology/#327] #philosophy
August 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Esoteric systems valorize exclusivity and convolution, not to clarify the world but to consecrate confusion. [doxology/#327] #philosophy
Philosophy of science must contribute to the conceptual hygiene of science and resist pseudoscientific encroachments. [metaphilosophy/#1989] #philosophy
August 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Philosophy of science must contribute to the conceptual hygiene of science and resist pseudoscientific encroachments. [metaphilosophy/#1989] #philosophy
That a trait evolved does not make it good, just as that it persists does not make it just. [phusology/#3284] #philosophy
August 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
That a trait evolved does not make it good, just as that it persists does not make it just. [phusology/#3284] #philosophy
Social cohesion weakens if deprived of a shared epistemic base of rationality. [nomology/#1570] #philosophy
August 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Social cohesion weakens if deprived of a shared epistemic base of rationality. [nomology/#1570] #philosophy