“The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions.” ~ John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
I've been here since mid-November 2022, when Twitter went from intolerably bad to ludicrously worse. So I guess I'll be here a while. Ran out of room in the bio, and running out of chars in this post; and I don't want to make a thread -- so here are hashtags I read, and may boost:
"If you study philosophy at a British or American #university, your #education in the history of the subject will likely be modest. Most universities teach #Plato and #Aristotle, skip about two millennia to #Descartes, zip through the highlights of #Empiricism and #Rationalism to #Kant, and then drop things again until the 20th Century, where #Frege and #Russell arise from the mists of the previous centuries’ Idealism ...”