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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • There’s a philosopher/history of philos on the bowling team I’ve just joined. I’m philospically inclined so I asked him if Descartes was ripping off Socrates’ “I only know that I know nothing” which could be interpreted as “I doubt everything except my existence”. It’s a topic that came up the other day on Lemmy. He said no, Socrates was just saying he was wiser than everyone else because he wasn’t deluded about his abilities.

    I asked him about Descartes’ relationship to solipsism reply: Descartes wasn’t a solipsist because his god wouldn’t deceive him like that, Descartes’ god is real because of the ontological argument. Which one’s that again?..

    I kinda just felt like I was making him do his job…








  • I wasnt aware that significant a number of IDF goons had been captured. The modifications to the text summary of the article confused me so I asked a clarifying question. Including my understanding of the words being used.

    Who is to be released; civilians, soldiers, spies, or what? Abducted civilians are not prisoners of war, they’re hostages, unless maybe they were seized from illegal occupations in which case I would say they’re prisoners, but not prisoners of war. I really am just trying to better understand what’s happening.