Kyle Foster
@kylefoster.bsky.social
Hater of the long s (ſ). — Philosophy and German undergrad who likes the book and synthesizer. —
None of these words mean anything
While speaking with David Deutsch, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed a future test for true AGI: if GPT-8 were to solve quantum gravity, it would qualify as AGI.
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September 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
None of these words mean anything
It's actually a lot more simple than this. A "positivist" is any person greater than 0.
there is in fact a pipeline issue in positivism: those deemed "positivists" by the intelligentsia are often poorly-read number crunchers while true positivists---by definition, deeply embedded in the humanities---are less likely to take such roles, creating a false image of political sorting.
True positivism has never been tried.
(Except in Red Vienna and it was actually pretty dope)
(Except in Red Vienna and it was actually pretty dope)
September 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's actually a lot more simple than this. A "positivist" is any person greater than 0.
"The history of philosophy contains... controversies, which, having come to a wrong decision and premature conclusion under some unfavorable circumstances... deserve to be subjected to a revision in the interest of truth and justice."
Laas couldn't say it any better
Laas couldn't say it any better
June 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
"The history of philosophy contains... controversies, which, having come to a wrong decision and premature conclusion under some unfavorable circumstances... deserve to be subjected to a revision in the interest of truth and justice."
Laas couldn't say it any better
Laas couldn't say it any better
Oh no, I am becoming a Herbartian this summer
June 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Oh no, I am becoming a Herbartian this summer
Big news for fans of Aristotle.
We are excited to share that Aristotle: Complete Works will be offered in two different physical formats: a boxed and unboxed set!
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May 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Big news for fans of Aristotle.
Coil – The Ape of Naples
Best comeback albums:
Portishead — Third
A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Best comeback albums:
Portishead — Third
A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
here's a fun game if you're a music dork: what is the best album released by a music act at least 15 years after its debut album?
May 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Coil – The Ape of Naples
Best comeback albums:
Portishead — Third
A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Best comeback albums:
Portishead — Third
A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
The older I get, the more I like people just having fun.
May 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The older I get, the more I like people just having fun.
Everything was going fine until concepts became things
April 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Everything was going fine until concepts became things
"I immersed myself, as far as was possible for me, in Laasian positivism, to which even some skeptical elements in myself responded." — Paul Natorp (1921)
April 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"I immersed myself, as far as was possible for me, in Laasian positivism, to which even some skeptical elements in myself responded." — Paul Natorp (1921)
It’s unfortunate most think positivism is some kind of prescription for reducing the world to a fairly predictable and mundane place. It isn’t that *at all.* The *truly* weird survives it.
March 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It’s unfortunate most think positivism is some kind of prescription for reducing the world to a fairly predictable and mundane place. It isn’t that *at all.* The *truly* weird survives it.
"to catch the eel of science by its tail" is now my favourite Kant phrase.
March 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"to catch the eel of science by its tail" is now my favourite Kant phrase.
We think and represent, therefore, we are; and we represent because we perceived.
March 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We think and represent, therefore, we are; and we represent because we perceived.
Reposted by Kyle Foster
7th Arthur Pap Lecture
Francesca Biagioli (University of Turin)
The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 5 pm CET, Vienna
The event will also be streamed via YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/4SwyYaZ...
Francesca Biagioli (University of Turin)
The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 5 pm CET, Vienna
The event will also be streamed via YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/4SwyYaZ...
The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach
YouTube video by Uni Wien live
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March 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
7th Arthur Pap Lecture
Francesca Biagioli (University of Turin)
The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 5 pm CET, Vienna
The event will also be streamed via YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/4SwyYaZ...
Francesca Biagioli (University of Turin)
The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 5 pm CET, Vienna
The event will also be streamed via YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/4SwyYaZ...
If it can't be found laying about, dig it up. That's the basic premise behind mining, and my Lebensphilosophie.
March 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
If it can't be found laying about, dig it up. That's the basic premise behind mining, and my Lebensphilosophie.
This is, by far, the most fun book to translate.
"What we are fighting against is the opinion of those who... attribute these norms and ideals to a bloated so-called reason; who believe they have completed their philosophical business with them when they pronounce their magical a priori upon them."
"What we are fighting against is the opinion of those who... attribute these norms and ideals to a bloated so-called reason; who believe they have completed their philosophical business with them when they pronounce their magical a priori upon them."
March 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is, by far, the most fun book to translate.
"What we are fighting against is the opinion of those who... attribute these norms and ideals to a bloated so-called reason; who believe they have completed their philosophical business with them when they pronounce their magical a priori upon them."
"What we are fighting against is the opinion of those who... attribute these norms and ideals to a bloated so-called reason; who believe they have completed their philosophical business with them when they pronounce their magical a priori upon them."
Mill’s axiom of the uniformity of nature’s course is not only unprovable but also contradicts the facts. The world becomes ever more complex; nature progresses. — Ernst Laas
March 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Mill’s axiom of the uniformity of nature’s course is not only unprovable but also contradicts the facts. The world becomes ever more complex; nature progresses. — Ernst Laas
Reposted by Kyle Foster
If I sit still enough, and engage as little as possible; I’ll look like I understand everything being discussed
- the guy who sits beside me in my Kant class
- the guy who sits beside me in my Kant class
just highlighting text with my FIFTH HIGHLIGHTER COLOR
- the guy who sits beside me in my kant class
- the guy who sits beside me in my kant class
March 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If I sit still enough, and engage as little as possible; I’ll look like I understand everything being discussed
- the guy who sits beside me in my Kant class
- the guy who sits beside me in my Kant class
just highlighting text with my FIFTH HIGHLIGHTER COLOR
- the guy who sits beside me in my kant class
- the guy who sits beside me in my kant class
March 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
just highlighting text with my FIFTH HIGHLIGHTER COLOR
- the guy who sits beside me in my kant class
- the guy who sits beside me in my kant class
TIME is measured in REFERENCE PAGES and sleep is just a THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT that PEER REVIEWERS rejected for LACK OF EVIDENCE
March 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
TIME is measured in REFERENCE PAGES and sleep is just a THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT that PEER REVIEWERS rejected for LACK OF EVIDENCE
Reposted by Kyle Foster
“This is precisely the basis of art, and most clearly that of poetry and the graphic arts. The highest manner of intuiting, as we find it in an artist’s view, is this kind of apprehension of a new type of stationary or mobile appearance of man and nature.”
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Hermann von Helmholtz
March 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“This is precisely the basis of art, and most clearly that of poetry and the graphic arts. The highest manner of intuiting, as we find it in an artist’s view, is this kind of apprehension of a new type of stationary or mobile appearance of man and nature.”
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Hermann von Helmholtz
If Poland and France are happy Germany is rearming, you know you’re on the wrong side of history.
March 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If Poland and France are happy Germany is rearming, you know you’re on the wrong side of history.
"When there is a lack of a healthy philosophy which directly criticizes the speculative presuppositions and moral impositions of the churches and seeks to replace them with more timely ideas, then obscurantism and reaction retain power in hand." — Ernst Laas
March 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"When there is a lack of a healthy philosophy which directly criticizes the speculative presuppositions and moral impositions of the churches and seeks to replace them with more timely ideas, then obscurantism and reaction retain power in hand." — Ernst Laas
A weird pattern observed grading tests all day. In presenting a counterexample argument where the conclusion is obviously false, a few students concluded with "birds are not mammals." Just shows you there are people out there whose first idea of something so obviously true is birds are mammals.
March 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A weird pattern observed grading tests all day. In presenting a counterexample argument where the conclusion is obviously false, a few students concluded with "birds are not mammals." Just shows you there are people out there whose first idea of something so obviously true is birds are mammals.
"First matter is just vibing ✨ in its pure identity 💯 existing as its own main character energy ⚡️ This self-actualizing matter? That's literally LIGHT! ☀️"
Hegel, Encyclopedia, §275.
Hegel, Encyclopedia, §275.
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
"First matter is just vibing ✨ in its pure identity 💯 existing as its own main character energy ⚡️ This self-actualizing matter? That's literally LIGHT! ☀️"
Hegel, Encyclopedia, §275.
Hegel, Encyclopedia, §275.