I have ignored the emails that were in the inbox
for which you were probably wanting a response
Forgive me they were overwhelming so long and so unread
@n_g_laskowski I didn’t want to go to law school so I got a master’s degree instead also was never told repeatedly that grad school was shitty or that jobs would be shitty and grad school wasn’t shitty and I make a good salary now I hate all the negativity on academic twitter
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@katiedimartin I do a PhD in analytic philosophy and this is the first tweet where Kripke has actually been named and thank because I had literally no idea who this was about and no idea that any of this was attached to him
the central grad school fashion dilemma is how to balance
a) needing 18 year olds to respect you
b) needing 50-70 year olds to respect you but in a different way
c) being hot
@KimptonNye is tacitly endorsing a fully deterministic model of the universe. If there are no objective probabilities, there is no inherent indeterminism. I for one do not think that intuitions regarding probabilities should constrain metaphysics (&physics) in this way.
@KimptonNye There’s a tacit assumption about the ultimate structure of reality in an exclusive commitment to subject possibilities. Bayesians are sometimes called the intellectual descendants of Laplace. If one is committed to the idea that there are no objective possibilities then one 1/n