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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · 26d

I have the same sentiments with Laas' "Kant’s Analogies of Experience."

Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Sep 28

Nonsense of the highest order, and just another example of some tech-billionaire wanting you to know how smart they are because they believe they could've done physics instead.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Sep 27

None of these words mean anything

Windows Central @windowscentral.com · Sep 26

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.

buff.ly

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's actually a lot more simple than this. A "positivist" is any person greater than 0.

turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · Aug 24

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.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 24

True positivism has never been tried.

(Except in Red Vienna and it was actually pretty dope)

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Jun 25

"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

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Jun 25

Oh no, I am becoming a Herbartian this summer

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · May 12

Reading this made me feel completely heartbroken. But I have to say I also do feel lucky, I feel lucky to have lived the life I lived where I could encounter your work and ideas. Thank you for everything, and peace and love to you and your family.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · May 12

Big news for fans of Aristotle.

Hackett Publishing Company @hackettpub.bsky.social · May 8

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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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · May 2

Coil – The Ape of Naples

Best comeback albums:

Portishead — Third

A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · May 2

Digging holes like a mole

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · May 1

The older I get, the more I like people just having fun.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Apr 22

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Apr 17

Everything was going fine until concepts became things

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Apr 10

Nothing sums up my past year more than this quote.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Apr 10

"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)

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Mar 25

I see positivism really just as a way to filter through *nonsense,* a method to identify all the squirrelly ideas on the marketplace.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Mar 25

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.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Mar 25

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Mar 23

"to catch the eel of science by its tail" is now my favourite Kant phrase.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Mar 22

We think and represent, therefore, we are; and we represent because we perceived.

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach

YouTube video by Uni Wien live

www.youtube.com

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Mar 18

If it can't be found laying about, dig it up. That's the basic premise behind mining, and my Lebensphilosophie.

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Mar 18

idealisirend, leibnizianisirend, nichtkantianisirend, realisirend, eleatisirend, scholastisirend, herbartianisirend, wolfianisirende, schellingianisirend, kritisirend, schopenhauerianisirend, Helmholtzianisirend, lotzeanisirend and thought he was addle-brained

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Mar 18

Though imagine a guy reviewing your work finding every opportunity he can to write (sic!?), because that’s Windelband. Dood saw Laas make up a new adjectives like heraklitisirend, platonisirend, kantianisirend, aristotelisirend, pythagoraisirend, christianisirend, rationalisirend...

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Kyle Foster @kylefoster.bsky.social · Mar 18

Laas' hatred for Windelband is hilarious. He immediately goes on to say: "It is all the more surprising when recently a Kantian with such conscious agreement with the master, like Professor Windelband... now represents the view that even the logical laws are synthetic."

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