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  • Well, understandable. It's one line out of a book, out of context. What he means is that no metaphysical nonsense actually matters, if it doesn't have real-world consequences. I.e. someone can claim Russell's Teapot actually exists, and rest of us can just ignore them because it's untestable and inconsequential.

    This has made very many philosophers very angry, but I don't expect anyone who's not interested in philosophy to care.

  • Sure:

    It appears, then, that the rule for attaining the third grade of clearness of apprehension is as follows: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.

    – C. S. Peirce

  • Damn, this guy went super hard.


    On the Birth of a Son

    Families when a child is born

    Hope it will turn out intelligent.

    I, through intelligence

    Having wrecked my whole life,

    Only hope that the baby will prove

    Ignorant and stupid.

    Then he'll be happy all his days

    And grow into a cabinet minister.