Yogi Jaeger
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🇨🇭 in 🇦🇹 Life beyond dogma! Free-floating systems thinker & natural philosopher. Antifragilist extemporanian metamodernist. Open science, society & living […]
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November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
For a bit of context, this is how I set this up in the Introduction:
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
For a bit of context, this is how I set this up in the Introduction:
And here's why we *still* have to deal with genetic reductionism in biology today:
"An entrenched assumption is not necessarily true, and might even be empirically false, though we are in big trouble if it is not at least approximately true in most circumstances where it can be applied. We need […]
"An entrenched assumption is not necessarily true, and might even be empirically false, though we are in big trouble if it is not at least approximately true in most circumstances where it can be applied. We need […]
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spore.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
And here's why we *still* have to deal with genetic reductionism in biology today:
"An entrenched assumption is not necessarily true, and might even be empirically false, though we are in big trouble if it is not at least approximately true in most circumstances where it can be applied. We need […]
"An entrenched assumption is not necessarily true, and might even be empirically false, though we are in big trouble if it is not at least approximately true in most circumstances where it can be applied. We need […]
And this is why science is conservative by nature:
"The more fundamental a proposed scientific change, the broader its effect would be, and consequently, the less chance that it would work. So if adopted, the more work it would make for other practitioners, changing things that they have been […]
"The more fundamental a proposed scientific change, the broader its effect would be, and consequently, the less chance that it would work. So if adopted, the more work it would make for other practitioners, changing things that they have been […]
Original post on spore.social
spore.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
And this is why science is conservative by nature:
"The more fundamental a proposed scientific change, the broader its effect would be, and consequently, the less chance that it would work. So if adopted, the more work it would make for other practitioners, changing things that they have been […]
"The more fundamental a proposed scientific change, the broader its effect would be, and consequently, the less chance that it would work. So if adopted, the more work it would make for other practitioners, changing things that they have been […]
... und weg ist er. Das ging unerwartet schnell. Good riddance. Was für eine schamloser Clown.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
... und weg ist er. Das ging unerwartet schnell. Good riddance. Was für eine schamloser Clown.
Wimsatt quote of the day: truer insights from false models.
"Most writers ignore the role that false models can have in improving our descriptions and explanations of the world. While normally treated as a handicap, the falsity of scientific models is in fact often essential to this role.”
"Most writers ignore the role that false models can have in improving our descriptions and explanations of the world. While normally treated as a handicap, the falsity of scientific models is in fact often essential to this role.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Wimsatt quote of the day: truer insights from false models.
"Most writers ignore the role that false models can have in improving our descriptions and explanations of the world. While normally treated as a handicap, the falsity of scientific models is in fact often essential to this role.”
"Most writers ignore the role that false models can have in improving our descriptions and explanations of the world. While normally treated as a handicap, the falsity of scientific models is in fact often essential to this role.”