finlay9.bsky.social
@finlay9.bsky.social
I like Philosophy.
I read your book mr economics and I very much like 👍

I would describe it as very well researched and impressive economics masquerading as populist slop economics 👍
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
...But it is easy to understand why physical determinism extends this conjunction to all possible cases.
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
...Now the unvarying conjunction of the two terms has not been verified by experience except in a very limited number of cases and with regard to facts which all confess to be almost independent of the will. ...
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
...determined by the molecular movement. For in a movement we may find the reason of another movement, but not the reason of a conscious state : only observation can prove that the latter accompanies the former. ...
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
...For we should first have to prove that a strictly determined psychic state corresponds to a definite cerebral state, and the proof of this is still to be given. Whatever image we fall back upon, we do not prove and we never shall prove by any reasoning that the psychic fact is fatally...
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Steve Keen is lowkey kinda right about neoclassical economics being the capitalist version of medieval theology and the divine right of kings...
October 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
...It is the endeavour to reduce Milton’s “Lycidas” to prose; and thereby to produce a verbal symbolism manageable for use in other connections of thought."
October 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
"Language halts behind intuition. The difficulty of philosophy is the expression of what is self-evident. Our understanding outruns the ordinary usages of words. Philosophy is akin to poetry. Philosophy is the endeavour to find a conventional phraseology for the vivid suggestiveness of the poet...
October 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
...on the walls of caves for thousands of years before the more permanent spatial relations had become a topic for conscious analysis"
October 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM