#Theory

I can’t help feeling, @TheBJPS @StathisPsillos @WayneMyrvold, that we’re losing the wood for the trees in all these details about which positivist said what and when about unobservables. In truth,
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folklore: the sleepless night chapter theories. a thread; I'm pretty sure the storyline is the playlist in reverse. so it starts with mad woman and ends with exile i have
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See this is easily resolved. It is very much a part of traditional intellectual culture to disagree (where applicable) even with pūrvācāryas. It becomes obvious in the case of material
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Right, I am interested in people's views.Learning objectives and success criteria; do you use them? If so, how? If not, why? How do you share learning intentions otherwise?I have a
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Thinking about Giordano Bruno again, and about how many of his ideas were hundreds of years ahead of their time (e.g. the infinity of worlds), and how many were just
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"Is this project to trace the roots of wokeness an intellectually honest attempt to grapple with the ideas of people you disagree with, or even to explain legitimately concerning social
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I'd describe it as critical theory infiltrating our Public Health Agency and journalists exposing it. You're a member of government pitting a government institution against journalists in this question. Not
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Today, on #TheoryThursday, (I know it is Friday but as I wrote the text yesterday, I refuse to change it) allow me to say a few words on musical theory
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National IQ and the Wealth of Nations in chartNIQ and (log) GDP capita from the Maddison project shows a strong relationship over 200 years!Here are some of my comments on
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#MedEd research peeps wanting a crisis break:I bet you have a song that's a music appreciation "gateway drug" - friends who hear it will seek out more of that artist.Any
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QAnon is a conspiracy thread created by an anonymous user named Q claiming to have top top-secret info from the Trump White House. It proposes that people like Tom Hanks
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Analizing BTC moves (4 moves) with Options data & On chain AnalysisA thread 1) Unusual Miner Outflows on Jun 23 1.1) 114 kBTC Options Open Interest expired on Jun
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Seiberg-Witten Theory, thread 1/2: 4-manifolds and "why Seiberg-Witten Theory?" After this I will do a thread going a little more into the technical details, because I think too often the
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1970s social psychologists thought the field was in "crisis" https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.11.010Areas of concern included experimenter demand, lack of relevance to important social problems, overly simplistic and inadequate theor
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#Thread Theory And Technique Of Dance:In the Indian literary tradition there is no dearth of critical writings on the art of information . But the most important and also fundamental
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Which book are you reading right now? I’m reading three books:- QED by Feynman: it’s an explanation of theory of light and matter (quantum electrodynamics). Beautifully explained.- Braiding Sweet Grass:
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