Devon

[LSE Philosophy @LSEPhilosophy]

🏆 Congratulations to 2026 Lakatos Award winner John Norton, who receives the award for his books The Material Theory of Induction and The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference. Congratulations!

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It is now 85 seconds to midnight.

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@the_point_mag I don’t like that.

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@MarkJCarney I don’t know what to order.

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@CambUP_PHILNYUK Stay in them.

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There are many mosquitoes in my city.

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@birchlse True.

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It’s lightly snowing in my hometown.

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@TakaMatsui2 Cool

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@DMV_PhD That’s a hell of a tweet.

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@PAHoyeck Interesting!

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@DMV_PhD @KennethLPearce Yeah ok very important…..

I think purely intuitively I reject that strengthening…

Why go beyond mere failing to believe?

I understand the difference, I’m just not sure I feel strongly either way.

Inclined to reject though…

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@DMV_PhD @KennethLPearce I’m not thinking about this too carefully myself… being stupid. But epistemically surely seems right? Don’t believe in excess stuff. I think I just have excess and particularly metaphysical considerations on my mind or am confused. Agree with you though lol

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@DMV_PhD @KennethLPearce I’m just being argumentative. Of course there is. Who wants to be plenitudinous or whatever!?

I actually think I might need to be idk

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@DMV_PhD @KennethLPearce OK my confused point aside maybe. Why think there’s such a weak prima facie reason in favour of nihilism?

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@mialevitin @ftweekend Glimmer of hope? https://t.co/53IQptcxKg

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@PhilosophyFails The discourse seems a bit sensationalist to me...

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@PhilosophyFails Would it take us back to the Stone Age though? Surely, there'd be a period where things fall apart, but I find it a stretch to think "extinction" follows...