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# ![@SimonSchfe45703 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1697285680227819520.png) @SimonSchfe45703 Simon SchΓ€fer

Simon SchΓ€fer posts on X about philosophy, chad, twitter, gigachad the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"It actually looks like that. πŸ™‚ Purchasing used books holds surprises in this regard. I recently purchased a book for a really pleasant price that now appears to have been signed by Josef Pieper who is quite well known in Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1717108679164522795)  2023-10-25T09:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Men need virtues as bees need stings. An individual man may perish by being brave or just all the same men need courage and justice. (Geach The Virtues p. 17). Man without virtue is the most savage the most unrighteous and the worst in regard to sexual license and gluttony. Aristotle Politics. https://t.co/kILzd9QBcb Man without virtue is the most savage the most unrighteous and the worst in regard to sexual license and gluttony. Aristotle Politics. https://t.co/kILzd9QBcb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1722685444834357318)  2023-11-09T18:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@starsfx @pinkheretic Evidence is the thing which can make a difference to what one is justified in believing. Arguments can make a difference to what one is justified in believing ergo etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1725107205257511097)  2023-11-16T11:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Katapetasma2 Modalism = The divine persons are modes of God. (For now this is just a thesis about which ontological category the divine persons fall under. I therefore assume that modalism is not inherently heretical; many "Latin trinities" are modalistic or quasi-modalistic in this sense)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1726302158398845087)  2023-11-19T18:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Katapetasma2 I actually find this approach from @PaoliniPaoletti quite interesting πŸ‘‡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1726304164601602398)  2023-11-19T18:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Much can be learned by pressing antirealists to make their ontology explicit. (Martin & Heil [----] p. 36)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1727343803676414411)  2023-11-22T15:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@BishopJaxi 1/ I mean in particular what Robert Adams calls the moral properties of the "obligation family" these are properties that are essentially deontological or "legalistic" for example "morally obligatory" "morally forbidden" or "morally guilty""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1727388168742130050)  2023-11-22T18:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@BishopJaxi 2/ I think especially Elizabeth Anscombe (Modern Moral Philosophy 1958) has already impressively demonstrated that such properties are not really intelligible if there is no supreme law maker"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1727388514583564351)  2023-11-22T18:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@BaxterWilliams_ 1/ Two questions: 1) What is your take on authors like Elizabeth Anscombe who have argued that certain moral expressions (e.g. the moral "ought") can actually only be used in a semantically meaningful way within a theistic worldview"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1727563230539636935)  2023-11-23T05:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@BaxterWilliams_ 2/ 2) Could it not be that views about the final telos of humans (inner-worldly vs. extra-worldly) have implications for the structure of accurate morality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1727563550061637774)  2023-11-23T05:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@AleMartnezR1 @TradCatholicMan @BishopJaxi @leroyb756 @unummagnumtotum @jmqcabrera @PracticalTheolo @Gandalf4Jesus @JacyBrean @TheMuppetPastor @anthonybernabei @donaldhbramwell @ItalianPolish Thanks God bless you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1728868308454412435)  2023-11-26T20:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@estrabismoooo @SpeedWatkins @waldenpod I don't think that abstract nouns can designate rigidly in the Kripkean sense. There is simply no corresponding "baptismal story" through which the referential behavior of these terms is fixed as is the case for example with proper names or (some) natural kind terms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1730678595842908671)  2023-12-01T20:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@snemes12 Well it seems quite a respectable position. One then just needs non-factual truthmakers in one's ontology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1731559659511709976)  2023-12-04T06:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@CMorr81 1/ I can agree with everything you said. What you call mystical nihilism actually seems to me to pose a (at least potential) difficulty to the argument since it could blur the qualitative distinctions between the experiences that speak against theism "  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1734251399800648207)  2023-12-11T16:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@SpeedWatkins Even if it were the case that they haven't read them (I doubt it) I don't think there is any significant correlation between reading Plato or Descartes and endorsing the view that there are particularly good reasons for skepticism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1737893911773819145)  2023-12-21T17:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Mooseongare Well I have a Catholic perspective on this. πŸ˜‰"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1738240439893766170)  2023-12-22T16:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"This is a beautiful icon. I'm also the only Catholic in my family but my little sister probably has more devotional items than I do and my father even built a Marian grotto in the local forest. πŸ˜… When youre the only catholic in your family but your sister gifts you the most beautiful hand-painted icon youve seen from a Thessalian priest who also produces for the Vatican https://t.co/scaoIO7Ury When youre the only catholic in your family but your sister gifts you the most beautiful hand-painted icon youve seen from a Thessalian priest who also produces for the Vatican https://t.co/scaoIO7Ury"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1739977905747489003)  2023-12-27T11:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@omnialnchristo Thank you. May God bless you and your family too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739991754995036165)  2023-12-27T12:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@WeeklyArgument Yes I should have assumed that. But even here it probably depends heavily on the specific philosophical question at hand. All in all it will probably be somewhere between pretty important and not really important (often probably the latter).πŸ˜…"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1740747198114214223)  2023-12-29T14:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AleMartnezR1 I generally agree. But the the theses that God cannot have parts and that he must have a certain modal status is of course controversial and depends on assumptions outside the philosophy of religion (namely general metaphysics and the question of the status of modal concepts)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1741179798179708937)  2023-12-30T19:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Nemo4334 2/ I can conceive of a world in which God does not incarnate but not one in which there is no God"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741198203268092337)  2023-12-30T20:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Nemo4334 No rather the other way around. I started philosophy more or less as an agnostic and only then became a Catholic. (Although of course not for purely philosophical reasons)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1741219905616134479)  2023-12-30T22:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Wired73813850 This would certainly make an excellent cover image for a monograph in the philosophy of mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1741343672992424355)  2023-12-31T06:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AndrewJRParker I have eventually come to share this concern. What do you think about the connection between evolution and the problem of animal pain @BishopJaxi 2/ could be seen as minimal evidence against it (because God could have had other ways to bring about biological diversity and some of them would probably have been associated with less animal suffering). @BishopJaxi 2/ could be seen as minimal evidence against it (because God could have had other ways to bring about biological diversity and some of them would probably have been associated with less animal suffering)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741370491355414815)  2023-12-31T08:07Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Should we expect that the act of creation is completely explanatory transparent to us Many grounding theorists have argued that there is "no transparent rationale" (Schaffer [----] 2) in most grounding links. Why should it be any different in the case of creatio ex nihilo Good question https://t.co/ljC4dH2u6K Good question https://t.co/ljC4dH2u6K"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1741798896584491220)  2024-01-01T12:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Scholastic_X @SimonSimplicio 1/ We should not overlook that there are versions of theological voluntarism (e.g. in Pufendorf Surez and I would argue Locke) that make use of very fine distinctions between different aspects of the natural law (e.g. debitum vs. obligatio in Surez)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1742152051331670328)  2024-01-02T11:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@AleMartnezR1 1/ I think you can be a Christian and believe that God has metaphysical (not corporal) parts. Strict divine simplicity is not necessitated by the biblical text itself but only by the application of philosophical assumptions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1742512814638375040)  2024-01-03T11:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@AleMartnezR1 2/ One could therefore even say that divine simplicity was only properly developed through the introduction of Greco-Roman philosophy (which of course does not have to be a problem I myself affirm classical theism)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1742512942824792415)  2024-01-03T11:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@TradCatholicMan Happy Birthday God bless you and your family"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743251332926943370)  2024-01-05T12:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Jared53517086 I think there is a sufficiently informative shared core description of what individual monotheistic systems mean by God that the "which God" objection is not particularly powerful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1745541587285721382)  2024-01-11T20:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PureNobody101 @OrthodoxOrigen Superior to continental in every respect (what one might think of Carnap specifically is of course a different question)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1745559521219539115)  2024-01-11T21:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Christiane_ee Would it be mean on my part to express skepticism as to whether there could even be such a thing as a genuinely non-analytical philosophy (at least qua philosophy)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1747171871273988419)  2024-01-16T08:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Christiane_ee 1/ Above all I think that a high standard of conceptual and argumentative precision seems to be constitutive for carrying out philosophy in a properly theoretical way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1747199133348229248)  2024-01-16T10:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@SlaveOfTheLamb @AleMartnezR1 2/ This could only be the case if the term designates God in virtue of something intrinsic to God. He makes the point that while a divine act qua act is indeed intrinsic to God to describe it as an act of creation designates it by reference to something extrinsic to God"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1748597286324543924)  2024-01-20T06:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@WriterJohnBuck @AleMartnezR1 1/ They could certainly fulfill some roles but with regard to resemblances between particulars in particular they seem to be "explanatorily idle". If both universals and similarities between particulars are grounded in facts about instantiation then these facts of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1748614352620368260)  2024-01-20T07:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The new Adobe Acrobat design is somehow impractical. Why does everything always have to be redone and why always for the worse 😐"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1749342729962688849)  2024-01-22T08:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"I just realized that I'm so unfamiliar with contemporary popular culture that I literally don't know a single Taylor Swift song title"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1749750452114108886)  2024-01-23T11:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@S1mpleS1mon @Don_DeYon But then it still seems to me to be important whether you have a broad or a narrow conception of evidence. If for example only measurable data counts as evidence then the statement that one is only justified in believing "evidentially supported" propositions is simply wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1750431513399689431)  2024-01-25T08:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@sasilik @SpeedWatkins 1/ Philosophical attempts to solve the mind body problem are not themselves scientific theories but rather attempts to develop models of how we can reconcile certain things suggested to us by the empirical sciences with what we already believe pre-theoretically"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1751145450197979303)  2024-01-27T07:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"3/ There are valid deductive and strong non-deductive theistic arguments whose premises are such that they are at least rationally acceptable in the light of our scientific and everyday knowledge. What else could one understand by a proof in this context"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1751155688942788988)  2024-01-27T08:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@n04m12 Seems like a good thing tbh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1751158058267418800)  2024-01-27T08:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"All the worse for non-analytic philosophy. πŸ˜πŸ™‚ @johnhboyer Scholastics were analytic philosophers sorry @johnhboyer Scholastics were analytic philosophers sorry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1751297637305762124)  2024-01-27T17:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@detjos_da There is a difference between evidence and measurable data https://twitter.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1743184155012194631 @WeeklyArgument I would say that there is a non-trivial difference. Evidence is anything that can contribute to epistemic justification whereas data is a special class of evidence that can be registered on a measuring device and used to justify empirical claims. https://twitter.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1743184155012194631 @WeeklyArgument I would say that there is a non-trivial difference. Evidence is anything that can contribute to epistemic justification"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1751495507522785407)  2024-01-28T06:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen I think it depends on how broadly you use "Aristotelianism". Armstrong's metaphysics for example is usually referred to as Aristotelian because it is a constituent ontology with immanent universals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1752785242736243023)  2024-01-31T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TyWilson87 @SecularOutpost 1/ Wouldn't the majority of those active in the philosophy of religion agree that the "logical problem of evil" is unsuccessful and that the problem should rather be understood as an evidential problem The reason for this is that we can never rule out the possibility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1754154344436343207)  2024-02-04T14:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I don't really know what a so-called "Giga Chad" is but can we please agree that whatever it is this is what they look like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1754954875840974925)  2024-02-06T19:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen I want it back. πŸ˜”"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1759468797122015431)  2024-02-19T06:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen I have access to his series "A New History of Western Philosophy". Would this be a place where he talks about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1759597313322778648)  2024-02-19T15:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@SpinozaGhosty I have studied Spinozas ontology quite a bit and am by no means sure whether it is coercive (on the contrary it seems to me that there are ineliminable incoherencies). Classical theism will always win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1759959465145541088)  2024-02-20T15:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen @uncualesquieras I don't know what "rad" means. πŸ˜₯"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1760356652199367065)  2024-02-21T17:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Dervine7 @MikeBenchCapon Scholasticism began to collapse before Descartes. Robert Pasnau goes so far as to remark that Descartes actually saved philosophy in this vulnerable post-scholastic period. Many have also pointed out the similarities between scholasticism and analytic philosophy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1760555603384992004)  2024-02-22T06:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@PhysInHistory Here are a few applications of Philosophy of Science that seem to be directly relevant to scientific practice (according to G. Schurz): (1) Providing decision-making aids for controversial questions in the individual sciences"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1761816013320892553)  2024-02-25T18:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@PhysInHistory (2) Serving as a pioneer and framework discipline for new scientific disciplines such as cognitive science and artificial intelligence or natural language theory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1761816064474669230)  2024-02-25T18:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen In retrospect I find this a bit silly but when I didn't know much about philosophy I was simping for Jaspers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1762000990247498139)  2024-02-26T06:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Last night I dreamed of an action film adaptation of the biography of Thomas Aquinas in which he built like a strong ox and trained in martial arts had to put a stop to a dangerous group of heretics. Aquinas was tall and fit built like an Ox. Really just a tremendous imposing physical force both in body and mind. https://t.co/PZJN7d5PQn Aquinas was tall and fit built like an Ox. Really just a tremendous imposing physical force both in body and mind. https://t.co/PZJN7d5PQn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1763856438248554881)  2024-03-02T09:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Endnotes instead of footnotes seem pretty unethical. https://t.co/71JsclQaBD https://t.co/71JsclQaBD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1764611343238259065)  2024-03-04T11:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen Depends on what you mean by hyper-partisan. I have my moral ideas that correspond to Catholic social teaching and these seem to me to be incompatible with the programs of every political party I know. All programs fall equally short when compared to these requirements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1766159244531744769)  2024-03-08T17:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@lucus0514 Lmao"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1767499854454960231)  2024-03-12T10:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"No Sir Im not lazy. I delight in the dignified Platonic Realm where it is not surprising "that the ones who get there are unwilling to occupy themselves with human affairs and that their souls are always pressing upwards eager to spend their time above""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1768660699281031226)  2024-03-15T15:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen I chose Frege but for such a question philosophy in Austria-Hungary in the 19th century must also be taken into account (Bolzano Brentano Mach etc.). Many of these Austrian thinkers in turn were also strongly influenced by scholasticism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1770342596503625909)  2024-03-20T06:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"My bold Hypothesis (which I actually read somewhere): We owe analytic philosophy at least in part to the strength of Austrian Catholicism which was able to limit the influence of German idealism on academic philosophy in Austria-Hungary. 😎 @OrthodoxOrigen I chose Frege but for such a question philosophy in Austria-Hungary in the 19th century must also be taken into account (Bolzano Brentano Mach etc.). Many of these Austrian thinkers in turn were also strongly influenced by scholasticism. @OrthodoxOrigen I chose Frege but for such a question philosophy in Austria-Hungary in the 19th century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1770342895326748680)  2024-03-20T06:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen Based. (One should hold to it I think πŸ˜…)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1770822673993453663)  2024-03-21T14:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@McClureShawn Lmao"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1772545545338245481)  2024-03-26T08:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"* By the way I don't know why these things show up so often in my feed. It's not that I specifically look for particularly childish anti-theist comments or that I follow these profiles. On the contrary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1773339048091738132)  2024-03-28T13:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JustRickard Just do Philosophy of Biology (it's a great discipline) πŸ˜…"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1776285786054304046)  2024-04-05T16:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Me: "I really shouldn't look so condescendingly on French philosophy." Meanwhile French philosophy: Probably no one will agree with me but I find this excerpt from the Derrida interview the funniest https://t.co/YITs35ZFRy Probably no one will agree with me but I find this excerpt from the Derrida interview the funniest https://t.co/YITs35ZFRy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1777652387408175325)  2024-04-09T10:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Yes. Divine Command Theory is other things equal a subjectivist metaethics. Can you be a theist and advocate for subjective morality Can you be a theist and advocate for subjective morality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1778290646895272007)  2024-04-11T05:15Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Which way contemporary metaphysician (when it comes to term choice in the context of a substratum theory of particular objects like Socrates) a) Bare Socrates / clothed Socrates b) Thin Socrates / thick Socrates (I find both options rather funny) a) b) a) b)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1782801651390156931)  2024-04-23T16:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy To be fair it wasn't really a serious question on my part. For me it was actually just about the choice of vocabulary that is whether one prefers to speak of bare particulars or thin particulars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1782872027436654932)  2024-04-23T20:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"* The PragerU approach to morality. The theistic approach to morality: The theistic approach to morality:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1786052673617227904)  2024-05-02T15:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"* I'm answering this way because the text would have been a little too long for the Twitter text field. if you are not a utilitarian i am curious why you aren't what about it do you regard as implausible (i am not a utilitarian to be clear; just curious about how others who are skeptical of it are thinking about this) if you are not a utilitarian i am curious why you aren't what about it do you regard as implausible (i am not a utilitarian to be clear; just curious about how others who are skeptical of it are thinking about this)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1788897448628216041)  2024-05-10T11:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Its there. πŸ₯Ή https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53666-3 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53666-3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1792828641023611353)  2024-05-21T08:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ibn_afghani Unfortunately not. πŸ˜”"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1793001583581475062)  2024-05-21T19:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"What type(s) of pens do you use to make marks in books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1793292015410528376)  2024-05-22T14:45Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"I have something similar going on with his name. πŸ₯² Reading the name Spinoza always reminds me of spinach. Dont ask me why. Reading the name Spinoza always reminds me of spinach. Dont ask me why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1794819638259270032)  2024-05-26T19:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@IoannesSilentio @Philip_Goff What about Lowes The Four-Category Ontology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1794999971307213091)  2024-05-27T07:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@JustRickard 1/ It seems to be a general methodological remark to the conclusion that it is not necessarily a fruitful approach to put investigations into coherence and consistency ahead of investigations into actual truth and validity. But yes the passage is only a very brief side note and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1798370294383759605)  2024-06-05T15:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Confession: I have never watched a single Star Wars movie from beginning to end. [--] years ago I would have thought you were crazy if you had told me that I would not care about new Star Wars movies/shows but here we are. [--] years ago I would have thought you were crazy if you had told me that I would not care about new Star Wars movies/shows but here we are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1798643067559592051)  2024-06-06T09:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@R2__314_______E My priest is actually from Kerala. πŸ˜…"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1799160140454830587)  2024-06-07T19:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@SecularOutpost 1/ Very controversial but I sometimes sympathize with the idea that there might be (moral) obligations to be in certain emotional states (e.g. being obliged to love someone). However this is probably not independent of the obligation to cultivate and "shape" such states by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1799337152293273868)  2024-06-08T07:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@202404224N Yes he does. (It's two pages lmao)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1799469358332428549)  2024-06-08T15:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I have three favourite persons. Do you guyz have favourite persons Do you guyz have favourite persons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1801862418496201067)  2024-06-15T06:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@jwolnfaf Aber wie erklren wir durschnittlichen Milchgenieer uns das hier πŸ‘‡ https://x.com/peta/status/1802834894403379690 cows milk is for baby cowsthats why ur tummy cant handle it πŸ₯΄πŸ’¨πŸ’₯ https://t.co/LIeRwkL9ay https://x.com/peta/status/1802834894403379690 cows milk is for baby cowsthats why ur tummy cant handle it πŸ₯΄πŸ’¨πŸ’₯ https://t.co/LIeRwkL9ay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1803012186261909551)  2024-06-18T10:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Catholicgabe Happy Birthday. πŸ™‚"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1803042578444525634)  2024-06-18T12:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MAstronomers Arda obviously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1803443642498986409)  2024-06-19T15:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"4 books Ive read in the past year. Your turn [--] books Ive read in the past year Your turn https://t.co/4XoFu23x5g [--] books Ive read in the past year Your turn https://t.co/4XoFu23x5g"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1804487309678567634)  2024-06-22T12:11Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@PapistCourier 1/ Von Reclam gibt zweisprachige Einzelausgaben mit denen ich gute Erfahrungen gemacht habe (in der Regel mit sehr hilfreichen editorischen Endnoten ergnzt): Auf jeden Fall zur Kategorienschrift zu De anima Politeia und zum Parmenides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1804610740067635633)  2024-06-22T20:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@PapistCourier 2/ Fr (erschwingliche) Gesamtausgaben bieten sich wahrscheinlich die englischen bersetzungen von Ross (online zugnglich z.B. ber ) und von Barnes fr Aristoteles an fr Platon gibt es eine Gesamtausgabe in einem Band"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1804610895508582550)  2024-06-22T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"It's actually one of the most retarded things I've ever seen. A man in Sweden burns the Koran in front of a crowd of Muslims While saying Go back to your Islamic country What do you think https://t.co/q3mL6lVDNO A man in Sweden burns the Koran in front of a crowd of Muslims While saying Go back to your Islamic country What do you think https://t.co/q3mL6lVDNO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1806040218732311015)  2024-06-26T19:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@JohnThePapist Ich raffe es auch nicht. πŸ˜•"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1807051216507085069)  2024-06-29T13:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_me_you_coward Having separate water with your coffee has nothing to do with America. Quite the opposite it has to do with civilization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1807426801666285652)  2024-06-30T14:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@the_Bradster007 Is it just me or is her vocal performance an exact mix (or a female version thereof) of Donald Trump and Arnold Schwarzenegger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1807724971663266223)  2024-07-01T10:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"My philosophy in a tweet as things stand: Ontology: hylemorphism (depends on the question asked though) Epistemology: Reformed epistemology; externalism about knowledge; pluralism about justification Phil. Rel.: Classical Theism Morality: Realism Ethics: Natural law/ Virtue My philosophy in a tweet as things stand: Ontology: some brand of dualism Epistemology: mostly Evidentialist Phil of Rel: agnostic strong lean atheist Theology: none Politics: uneducated in politics but generally liberal and progressive Morality: emotivism Ethics: Kantian My philosophy in a tweet as things stand: Ontology:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1808403515598848494)  2024-07-03T07:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@alec_sears A non-retarded unit of length"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1808891431404126563)  2024-07-04T15:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@lethalluz Are existentialism classess more frequently attended by female students (I genuinely have no idea)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1810566618398814504)  2024-07-09T06:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@wiseconnector Norway probably"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1812345402554761402)  2024-07-14T04:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This goes so hard. 😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1812923380594803187)  2024-07-15T18:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I wonder what would have become of him if he had read analytic philosophy of religion instead of Schelling's "Philosophie der Mythologie""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1813152768623870304)  2024-07-16T10:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ItalianPolish Who is this guy (I see him a lot here but I have seriously no idea)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1814621148602134897)  2024-07-20T11:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Countries I have been to [--]. Germany (trivially) [--]. Austria [--]. Swiss [--]. Denmark [--]. Sweden [--]. Norway [--]. France [--]. Italy I think thats it. πŸ˜… Countries I have been to [--]. Peru [--]. Ecuador [--]. Argentina [--]. Chile [--]. USA (Texas for 12h) [--]. Germany(live here) [--]. Spain [--]. Portugal [--]. England [--]. France [--]. Italy [--]. Austria [--]. Croatia [--]. Greece [--]. Poland [--]. Czech Republic [--]. Hungary [--]. Slovakia [--]. Luxembourg [--]. Morocco Countries I have been to [--]. Peru [--]. Ecuador [--]. Argentina [--]. Chile [--]. USA (Texas for 12h) [--]. Germany(live here) [--]. Spain [--]. Portugal [--]. England [--]. France [--]. Italy [--]. Austria 13."  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1814873051479077140)  2024-07-21T04:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"* "Switzerland" of course I was half asleep when I typed this. πŸ’€"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1814902121336025417)  2024-07-21T05:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen Why not switch to the side of the based non-voters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1815256760715825469)  2024-07-22T05:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"- Excerpts from Dialogue with Trypho; Augustines Confessions and Aquinas Summa - Proslogion - Plantinga Augustinian Christian Philosophy - Stump Athens and Jerusalem - Relevant Articles from the T&T Clark Handbook of Analytic Theology The course is Introduction to Philosophy and Christian Thought. What texts are you assigning The course is Introduction to Philosophy and Christian Thought. What texts are you assigning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1815407209095868500)  2024-07-22T15:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Do moral facts care about my feelings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1816172884403908616)  2024-07-24T18:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@other_europe Based Malta"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1818310406831820859)  2024-07-30T15:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@NYHorn Yes I'll probably settle on buying a new one but not too expensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1819742181948604842)  2024-08-03T14:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GGLamers @NYHorn Mein [----] gekaufter war (zumindest fr meine Verhltnisse) eigentlich recht teuer. Aber ich kenne mich auch wirklich so gar nicht aus. πŸ˜…"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1819838587233272252)  2024-08-03T20:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@lethalluz Average Canadian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1820148077044318314)  2024-08-04T17:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Nobody: Adherents of continental philosophy: the fact that Derrida is not seen as the most rigorous and most serious philosopher of our moment is only proof of how utterly philosophy has fallen short of its task the fact that Derrida is not seen as the most rigorous and most serious philosopher of our moment is only proof of how utterly philosophy has fallen short of its task"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1820198592566747419)  2024-08-04T20:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Wait "iced coffee" and "Eiskaffee" have different denotations 🀯 (consuming coffee below [--] degrees Celsius has to be criminalized anyway) German Twitter how do you distinguish Eis (ice cream) from Eis (ice) Trying to find iced coffee that isn't "Eiskaffee" is proving difficult. Settling on "kalte Kaffeegetrnke" but maybe something better exists German Twitter how do you distinguish Eis (ice cream) from Eis (ice) Trying to find iced coffee that isn't "Eiskaffee" is proving difficult. Settling on "kalte Kaffeegetrnke" but maybe something better exists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1821109876669514217)  2024-08-07T09:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@urenhet Happy Birthday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1821143548915327067)  2024-08-07T11:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"What is this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1821897227725344849)  2024-08-09T13:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@vivthetartan @HopefulTheism @ThisIsKyleR @FBI Hot take: Its conceptually possible to murder a non-innocent (whatever that means exactly) person"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1824380602147037433)  2024-08-16T09:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The young man at the supermarket checkout had just told me that I would look exactly like the lead actor in the new The Hunger Games movie. Is that bad or a compliment (I don't know this movie)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1825532497091768811)  2024-08-19T13:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@estrabismoooo @WriterJohnBuck Personally I would have difficulty accepting that we should a priori rule out on purely conceptual grounds that mentality is a natural phenomenon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1825914888444661862)  2024-08-20T15:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ze10113 I've seen different variations. But not so good if intended as an exercise for the long head of the triceps as the target muscle is not stretched enough. Also some variations appear risky with regard to shoulder impingement. At least that would be my take"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1826673238287720781)  2024-08-22T17:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"What a beautiful field of research the ontology of music is 😳"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1827240344825553097)  2024-08-24T07:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Now my laptop is finally dead. Until I get a new one I literally have to do my university work on my smartphone. We'll see how it works out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1827459459863519672)  2024-08-24T21:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen What are your thoughts on France (with respect to this question)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1829044153319047569)  2024-08-29T06:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"My parents are returning from Norway. I'm sure they're very proud that their son has managed the house and garden so well. A real adult. 😌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1829150700477263915)  2024-08-29T13:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"1/ Great. And also (directed to the philosophy of religion bubble): Would some of you who haven't read Nagasawa's book yet be interested in a kind of online reading group (here on Twitter) https://youtu.be/hHAZnMW0uXAsi=WOGd05ZUB9BGsCvO https://youtu.be/hHAZnMW0uXAsi=WOGd05ZUB9BGsCvO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1829963172696244395)  2024-08-31T19:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@pastorspomer I am poor and had to finance a new laptop and data recovery and I could not survive on wild berries alone. πŸ₯²"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1830966489769484370)  2024-09-03T13:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BanjoAtheist 1/ I believe that he understands this already beforehand. The incarnation involves not only mere satisfaction (in which a debt is paid - in some sense) but also God's sharing attention and union with every single human in all their suffering sinfulness and loneliness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1831759992803754004)  2024-09-05T18:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GregoriusAdvena It might actually be that I read Candide before I read this book. I don't remember exactly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1832069334090309871)  2024-09-06T14:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Is there an atheological analogue to Chad McIntosh's series of review articles in Philosophy Compass on nontraditional and traditional arguments for theism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1832074947176411451)  2024-09-06T15:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


""When we have guests over I want you not to drink your coffee from your crusader mug." (My mother)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1833141555340689669)  2024-09-09T13:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"2/ different. 2) Although there seems to be nothing in the concept of an abstract objects that excludes the possibility that abstract objects can be "created" in some sense of the word it still does not seem to be the case that they "cry out for explanation". So it could well be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1833229519374979300)  2024-09-09T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"3/ that theistic foundationalists can have their cake and eat it too but arguments from abstracta to a divine mind are probably not very fruitful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1833229521677652418)  2024-09-09T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"2015: lutheran 2016: lutheran 2017: agnostic/ atheist 2018: atheist 2019: atheist/ agnostic/ hopeful theist 2020: christian theist 2021: christian theist (formally lutheran but attending catholic service) 2022: catholic 2023: catholic 2024: catholic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1833542470543806968)  2024-09-10T16:26Z [---] followers, 11.9K engagements


"@FactsMatterPpl @waldenpod The irony of such a comment under a post complaining about the stupidity of the mainstream abortion debate. πŸ’€"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1834339164013363604)  2024-09-12T21:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"So you defend a trope ontology Name every trope"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1834613684133372011)  2024-09-13T15:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@morallawwithin I will hold the door open and not go in even if it takes the other person a minute to even reach the door"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1836391510398345310)  2024-09-18T13:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Pears are my favorite apples"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1836419025342967810)  2024-09-18T14:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen It was a good pear. "Make your pick: Stanford or USC" - You mean which university is better In this case I have no idea since the westernmost place I've ever been was Lyon. πŸ₯²"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1836441873709207574)  2024-09-18T16:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The contrast to this is Bonaventure In Hex VII [--] & XIX 14"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1837802297595744461)  2024-09-22T10:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This is the kind of vulgar relativism that first-year students are presented with by their metaethics lecturers as a foil to elaborate metaethical positions. It is so stereotypical that it makes me grin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1838211470028398859)  2024-09-23T13:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"1/ Im not sure that the phrase "paths to reach God" necessarily implies a success condition. It seems to me it could be analogous to the case in which from the fact that there is no Fountain of Youth it does not follow that Ponce the Leon was searching for either nothing or Jimmy Akin Defends the Pope's Comments: A Response to Akin I go into way more depth in my video explaining the Pope's comments. Check it out here https://t.co/GgtlLKJijq https://t.co/AdYXaqYtED Jimmy Akin Defends the Pope's Comments: A Response to Akin I go into way more depth in my video explaining the Pope's comments."  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1838656649902592284)  2024-09-24T19:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"My little sister insists that John Paul II and Joe Biden look similar. 😐"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1839354969646149787)  2024-09-26T17:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"What kind of trousers can a man wear in the cold season (At the moment I only have trousers made of very thin linen and I was told that wearing long underpants underneath might not be consistent with propotypical biblical masculinity)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1840726538553098374)  2024-09-30T12:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@JACuadriello Why Me (Kris Kristofferson)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1841211175586935133)  2024-10-01T20:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JohnThePapist What is it that Finland doesn't have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1841364302994813208)  2024-10-02T06:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@lyssasphere Sorry for not expecting 1st century Roman coins minted after him. https://x.com/lyssasphere/status/1843326248879341612 @marginletter Except there is archaeological evidence for the existence of Caesar and the entire city of Rome and Greece as well. https://x.com/lyssasphere/status/1843326248879341612 @marginletter Except there is archaeological evidence for the existence of Caesar and the entire city of Rome and Greece as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1843890187052691774)  2024-10-09T05:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JosephBenJ2 For example the grounding and dependence discourse in contemporary metaphysics. There are also fairly simple terminological problems e.g. with the existing German vocabulary it is not easy to distinguish between faith and belief (the noun "Glaube" would be used for both)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1845206513121394866)  2024-10-12T20:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JosephBenJ2 1/ I am thinking of questions about grounding itself (whether grounding exists what work it would do in metaphysical theorizing etc.). To translate a classic essay from this literature such as Jonathan Schaffer's "On what grounds what" word for word into German would certainly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1845333669092733000)  2024-10-13T05:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Absolute Chad. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=szeirNGHTa0 He was the most masculine presence I have ever been around. A friend of mine met Pope Saint John Paul II and conversed with him for a few minutes. I asked what it was like and this is what he said. https://t.co/wnXFQX3LEH https://www.youtube.com/watchv=szeirNGHTa0 He was the most masculine presence I have ever been around. A friend of mine met Pope Saint John Paul II and conversed with him for a few minutes. I asked what it was like and this is what he said. https://t.co/wnXFQX3LEH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1845432907780813189)  2024-10-13T11:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"It isnt a sin. And there might even be constellations where a Christian is OBLIGED TO REFRAIN from participating in the political process. What are your thoughts on this statement Is it a sin to not participate in the political process https://t.co/XaFOEXGNlk What are your thoughts on this statement Is it a sin to not participate in the political process https://t.co/XaFOEXGNlk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1845837469062779237)  2024-10-14T14:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@bigdaddymode 2/ typically arent consequentialists and should not be. The principle of double effect complicates things though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1845897013155565705)  2024-10-14T18:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Friendly Anglo-Saxons explained to me how to do it (thank you). Wait do people from the Anglosphere actually do their finger counting like in the picture on the left I tried this gesture and the biomechanics of my hand don't even allow it. 😭 Wait do people from the Anglosphere actually do their finger counting like in the picture on the left I tried this gesture and the biomechanics of my hand don't even allow it. 😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1848007725092933980)  2024-10-20T14:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@dfziklag It is a great collection of her essays on ethics on what could be called philosophical anthropology and on theory of action. Some better known (like Modern Moral Philosophy) many less so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1848576327760187855)  2024-10-22T04:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@No5mallf3at @EddyEkofo 2/ model"). The only problem for getting started is that the coprus thomisticum is so extremely extensive. A good start for his metaphysics are arguably his shorter early treatises On the principles of nature and On being and essence. With the Summa I would recommend reading"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1850453668505567331)  2024-10-27T08:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@No5mallf3at @EddyEkofo 3/ selected questions or articles first depending on which topic you want to see his position on (it is rather unrealistic to just read through the Summa or even just the first part in a linear fashion). Almost all of his works can be found online"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1850453745626214411)  2024-10-27T08:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"So its my birthday (its over). πŸ’€"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1854298970379481502)  2024-11-06T23:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"1/ From EN II.6: "But not every action nor every passion admits of a mean; for some have names that already imply badness e.g. spite shamelessness envy and in the case of actions adultery theft murder; for all of these and suchlike things imply by their names that they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1855226985489850438)  2024-11-09T12:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TradCatholicMan No. She is German. πŸ˜…"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1856051774039183511)  2024-11-11T19:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen I can't imagine there's anything more to this than opportunistic calculation tbh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1856055884713243098)  2024-11-11T19:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I should probably start keeping bees or fishing. Just walking in the woods reading working out and annoying my little sister. Every day. That's pretty much all I do outside of university or church related activities. I don't even listen to music regularly and I hardly ever watch films. So now you know how boring I am. Just walking in the woods reading working out and annoying my little sister. Every day. That's pretty much all I do outside of university or church related activities. I don't even listen to music regularly and I hardly ever watch films. So now you know how boring I am"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1856433876035612752)  2024-11-12T20:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Apparently everyone in the seminar knows my first name and I don't even know anyone's last name. 😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1858788974090760224)  2024-11-19T08:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I have no idea whatsoever what this suddenly ubiquitous figure is or what it symbolizes. https://t.co/WRxdP6qreN https://t.co/WRxdP6qreN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1859676016937140254)  2024-11-21T19:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@chudjak Chudjaks only want one thing and it's disgusting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1860784459156472051)  2024-11-24T20:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Frog in sunlight. Deer in headlights https://t.co/kWvTSnRI0n Deer in headlights https://t.co/kWvTSnRI0n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1861455430301413587)  2024-11-26T17:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@PeterScottGray 🀝"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1861664168996184234)  2024-11-27T06:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


""What do we know about creating universes anyway" (C. Stephen Evans)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1862920204944081185)  2024-11-30T18:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Contrary to popular opinion this AI tool is excellent and produces valid results. 😎 This AI is broken and totally idiotic https://t.co/16WpXEKeqO This AI is broken and totally idiotic https://t.co/16WpXEKeqO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1863977450109108232)  2024-12-03T16:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CarloMonteschio "I save you with your consent.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1866189736995324016)  2024-12-09T18:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Could be us (if only I had a based mustache)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1867610652078149979)  2024-12-13T16:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@BanjoAtheist Something like this (but here we see that one quickly runs into problems with arbitrariness i.e. where to draw the line)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1868357254090489870)  2024-12-15T18:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I am currently sitting at a tabair (something that is a table not found at the base of the Eiffel Tower or a chair found there)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1868539858261876821)  2024-12-16T06:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Argh the picture on the left isn't from [----] (I was [--] but that wasnt in 2020) Why am I so stupid πŸ’€ Am I aging backwards https://t.co/W0KqSOJsjm Am I aging backwards https://t.co/W0KqSOJsjm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1869399206060065208)  2024-12-18T15:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"2020 in Denmark (i was [--] years old)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1869407384965394589)  2024-12-18T15:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This is my little sister and she is not even "trad". πŸ₯² (I will probably delete it later since I didn't ask her)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1870147028602298531)  2024-12-20T16:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"One of my sisters (not the little one but the 21-year-old) apparently has an anonymous twitter account but - I assume for good reason - doesn't tell me her @ . Find her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1870588000847155320)  2024-12-21T21:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Am I retarded for not being 100% sure if those are blackberries ("Brombeeren" in my country) or mulberries ("Maulbeeren" in my country) What is this fruit called in your country https://t.co/fNs1T8ns0R What is this fruit called in your country https://t.co/fNs1T8ns0R"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1871517982347935986)  2024-12-24T11:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"1/ So I'll say it even though the American mind may not be able to comprehend it: At no point in my childhood did I have any credence whatsoever in the existence of Santa Claus (as distinct from St. Nicholas which he obviously would be since they don't have the same properties). How old were you when you realized that Santa actually is real after all How old were you when you realized that Santa actually is real after all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1871812764546765278)  2024-12-25T06:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ProfilStandard You should have used a Gigachad GIF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1872005837537063066)  2024-12-25T19:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Gm What does your Plato library look like https://t.co/rzGIMq2tDv Gm What does your Plato library look like https://t.co/rzGIMq2tDv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1872307296853950835)  2024-12-26T15:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@heiligetrinitat Yes. (Both versions are possible but saying "Platon" is more common I think)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1872308832418029933)  2024-12-26T15:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BanjoAtheist 3/ properties are "grounded" in physical properties in the sense stipulated above then they cannot simply be reduced to the latter. And if they can be reduced to the latter then it seems inappropriate to say that they are grounded in them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1873797600618700888)  2024-12-30T18:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BanjoAtheist 4/ This way of seeing the situation is familiar to me from the philosophers Paul Audi and Matthew Tugby. But others (e.g. Gideon Rosen) have tried to somehow link grounding and reduction. The Audi-Tugby point seems rather plausible to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1873797727639032075)  2024-12-30T18:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Happy New Year to all may God bless and protect you on each and every day. (I'm late I know. I needed my beauty sleep)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1874346506721128882)  2025-01-01T06:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"It's white outside the sky is pink and at least from the window I can't see any significant remnants of fireworks. Good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1874349944582398299)  2025-01-01T07:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Can someone explain this to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1874573197691199716)  2025-01-01T21:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen Maybe we are moderately distant relatives. πŸ₯Ή"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1875933568524014053)  2025-01-05T15:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"So not only am I sick with the flu but I also have a (I suspect serious) shoulder injury that will probably keep me out of training for several weeks or months so I'll look like a noodle come spring. If anyone has any words of comfort for me thank you very much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1876999778078208217)  2025-01-08T14:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I want my shoulder injury to go away. πŸ˜ŸπŸ’€"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1879228890553761969)  2025-01-14T18:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@bigdaddymode Lol I may be blind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1879987507989029336)  2025-01-16T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"No particular order: Plato Aristotle Augustine Boethius Anselm Aquinas Scotus Kant Frege Moore Wittgenstein Quine Geach Anscombe Plantinga Alston Wolterstorff van Inwagen Adams (both of them) J. Haldane Korsgaard K. Fine J. Heil Oderberg Stump Who are your favorite philosophers (1) Plato (2) Hume (3) Hegel (4) Kant (5) Wittgenstein (6) Spinoza (7) Aristotle (8) Descartes (9) Plotinus (10) Sidgwick Who are your favorite philosophers (1) Plato (2) Hume (3) Hegel (4) Kant (5) Wittgenstein (6) Spinoza (7) Aristotle (8) Descartes (9) Plotinus (10) Sidgwick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1882020284871713136)  2025-01-22T10:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CMorr81 Well insofar as a caloric surplus is conducive to increasing protein bio-synthesis it can make sense in some contexts to do something that could be described as "bulking""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1882432133857472644)  2025-01-23T14:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CMorr81 * It's not about converting fat into muscle. A moderate increase in body fat is simply an unwanted side effect of eating at a caloric surplus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1882432330859761940)  2025-01-23T14:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Apparently my southern German articulation organs do not allow me to pronounce such a simple word as "to wear""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1882857089128890386)  2025-01-24T18:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I have no idea who this is and at this point I am too affraid to ask Confirm him. https://t.co/l50kadU3jY Confirm him. https://t.co/l50kadU3jY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1885442155365187933)  2025-01-31T21:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@JohnThePapist I would at least ask her please not to do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1888291428071080297)  2025-02-08T18:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JohnThePapist * Maybe if married (i.e. never) but even then I'm not sure if that's a legitimate constituent of marital debt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1888291779666981187)  2025-02-08T18:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LatFilosof I think its not about entailment. Cuneos argument is more like a parity or "companions-in-guilt" argument. That is he argues quite extensively that all the "prima facie problematic features" of moral facts can also be found mutatis mutandis in epistemic facts.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1888925498790523159)  2025-02-10T12:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@estrabismoooo By a "haecceitistic difference" I mean a difference with respect to "non-qualitative" features only (Cowling uses this phrase in his SEP entry). I guess the main reason for constructing haecceities this way is to accommodate them in an ontology of resemblance class nominalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1890067151878586509)  2025-02-13T15:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Art https://t.co/jndVrOCZ1t Art https://t.co/jndVrOCZ1t"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1895876834124054549)  2025-03-01T16:40Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@LexDecs Why AI πŸ₯²"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1895877746775195695)  2025-03-01T16:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LexDecs Lol look at the Dutch of the previous post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1895878489175441486)  2025-03-01T16:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LexDecs * However I think there is a very similar AI image circulating where the baby looks even more evil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1896608631325655475)  2025-03-03T17:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"So just take John Heils ontology and call it hylemorphic. https://philpapers.org/rec/RENWTF https://philpapers.org/rec/RENWTF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1897318366869905501)  2025-03-05T16:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @orthodoxorigen @princeargyelus @lexdecs @latehaveiloved @aerie707 @momoewi @alemartnezr1 @no5mallf3at @johnthepapist @lethalluz @wiltedlili28925 @contramolinism @bishopjaxi @banjoatheist @drjavierdelahe1 @nanalostaccount @bdamian25 @tradcatholicman @estrabismoooo @speedwatkins

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"It actually looks like that. πŸ™‚ Purchasing used books holds surprises in this regard. I recently purchased a book for a really pleasant price that now appears to have been signed by Josef Pieper who is quite well known in Germany"
X Link 2023-10-25T09:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Men need virtues as bees need stings. An individual man may perish by being brave or just all the same men need courage and justice. (Geach The Virtues p. 17). Man without virtue is the most savage the most unrighteous and the worst in regard to sexual license and gluttony. Aristotle Politics. https://t.co/kILzd9QBcb Man without virtue is the most savage the most unrighteous and the worst in regard to sexual license and gluttony. Aristotle Politics. https://t.co/kILzd9QBcb"
X Link 2023-11-09T18:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@starsfx @pinkheretic Evidence is the thing which can make a difference to what one is justified in believing. Arguments can make a difference to what one is justified in believing ergo etc"
X Link 2023-11-16T11:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Katapetasma2 Modalism = The divine persons are modes of God. (For now this is just a thesis about which ontological category the divine persons fall under. I therefore assume that modalism is not inherently heretical; many "Latin trinities" are modalistic or quasi-modalistic in this sense)"
X Link 2023-11-19T18:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Katapetasma2 I actually find this approach from @PaoliniPaoletti quite interesting πŸ‘‡"
X Link 2023-11-19T18:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Much can be learned by pressing antirealists to make their ontology explicit. (Martin & Heil [----] p. 36)"
X Link 2023-11-22T15:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@BishopJaxi 1/ I mean in particular what Robert Adams calls the moral properties of the "obligation family" these are properties that are essentially deontological or "legalistic" for example "morally obligatory" "morally forbidden" or "morally guilty""
X Link 2023-11-22T18:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@BishopJaxi 2/ I think especially Elizabeth Anscombe (Modern Moral Philosophy 1958) has already impressively demonstrated that such properties are not really intelligible if there is no supreme law maker"
X Link 2023-11-22T18:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@BaxterWilliams_ 1/ Two questions: 1) What is your take on authors like Elizabeth Anscombe who have argued that certain moral expressions (e.g. the moral "ought") can actually only be used in a semantically meaningful way within a theistic worldview"
X Link 2023-11-23T05:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@BaxterWilliams_ 2/ 2) Could it not be that views about the final telos of humans (inner-worldly vs. extra-worldly) have implications for the structure of accurate morality"
X Link 2023-11-23T05:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@AleMartnezR1 @TradCatholicMan @BishopJaxi @leroyb756 @unummagnumtotum @jmqcabrera @PracticalTheolo @Gandalf4Jesus @JacyBrean @TheMuppetPastor @anthonybernabei @donaldhbramwell @ItalianPolish Thanks God bless you"
X Link 2023-11-26T20:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@estrabismoooo @SpeedWatkins @waldenpod I don't think that abstract nouns can designate rigidly in the Kripkean sense. There is simply no corresponding "baptismal story" through which the referential behavior of these terms is fixed as is the case for example with proper names or (some) natural kind terms"
X Link 2023-12-01T20:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@snemes12 Well it seems quite a respectable position. One then just needs non-factual truthmakers in one's ontology"
X Link 2023-12-04T06:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@CMorr81 1/ I can agree with everything you said. What you call mystical nihilism actually seems to me to pose a (at least potential) difficulty to the argument since it could blur the qualitative distinctions between the experiences that speak against theism "
X Link 2023-12-11T16:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@SpeedWatkins Even if it were the case that they haven't read them (I doubt it) I don't think there is any significant correlation between reading Plato or Descartes and endorsing the view that there are particularly good reasons for skepticism"
X Link 2023-12-21T17:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@Mooseongare Well I have a Catholic perspective on this. πŸ˜‰"
X Link 2023-12-22T16:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"This is a beautiful icon. I'm also the only Catholic in my family but my little sister probably has more devotional items than I do and my father even built a Marian grotto in the local forest. πŸ˜… When youre the only catholic in your family but your sister gifts you the most beautiful hand-painted icon youve seen from a Thessalian priest who also produces for the Vatican https://t.co/scaoIO7Ury When youre the only catholic in your family but your sister gifts you the most beautiful hand-painted icon youve seen from a Thessalian priest who also produces for the Vatican https://t.co/scaoIO7Ury"
X Link 2023-12-27T11:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@omnialnchristo Thank you. May God bless you and your family too"
X Link 2023-12-27T12:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@WeeklyArgument Yes I should have assumed that. But even here it probably depends heavily on the specific philosophical question at hand. All in all it will probably be somewhere between pretty important and not really important (often probably the latter).πŸ˜…"
X Link 2023-12-29T14:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AleMartnezR1 I generally agree. But the the theses that God cannot have parts and that he must have a certain modal status is of course controversial and depends on assumptions outside the philosophy of religion (namely general metaphysics and the question of the status of modal concepts)"
X Link 2023-12-30T19:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Nemo4334 2/ I can conceive of a world in which God does not incarnate but not one in which there is no God"
X Link 2023-12-30T20:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Nemo4334 No rather the other way around. I started philosophy more or less as an agnostic and only then became a Catholic. (Although of course not for purely philosophical reasons)"
X Link 2023-12-30T22:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Wired73813850 This would certainly make an excellent cover image for a monograph in the philosophy of mind"
X Link 2023-12-31T06:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AndrewJRParker I have eventually come to share this concern. What do you think about the connection between evolution and the problem of animal pain @BishopJaxi 2/ could be seen as minimal evidence against it (because God could have had other ways to bring about biological diversity and some of them would probably have been associated with less animal suffering). @BishopJaxi 2/ could be seen as minimal evidence against it (because God could have had other ways to bring about biological diversity and some of them would probably have been associated with less animal suffering)"
X Link 2023-12-31T08:07Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Should we expect that the act of creation is completely explanatory transparent to us Many grounding theorists have argued that there is "no transparent rationale" (Schaffer [----] 2) in most grounding links. Why should it be any different in the case of creatio ex nihilo Good question https://t.co/ljC4dH2u6K Good question https://t.co/ljC4dH2u6K"
X Link 2024-01-01T12:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@Scholastic_X @SimonSimplicio 1/ We should not overlook that there are versions of theological voluntarism (e.g. in Pufendorf Surez and I would argue Locke) that make use of very fine distinctions between different aspects of the natural law (e.g. debitum vs. obligatio in Surez)"
X Link 2024-01-02T11:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@AleMartnezR1 1/ I think you can be a Christian and believe that God has metaphysical (not corporal) parts. Strict divine simplicity is not necessitated by the biblical text itself but only by the application of philosophical assumptions"
X Link 2024-01-03T11:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@AleMartnezR1 2/ One could therefore even say that divine simplicity was only properly developed through the introduction of Greco-Roman philosophy (which of course does not have to be a problem I myself affirm classical theism)"
X Link 2024-01-03T11:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@TradCatholicMan Happy Birthday God bless you and your family"
X Link 2024-01-05T12:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Jared53517086 I think there is a sufficiently informative shared core description of what individual monotheistic systems mean by God that the "which God" objection is not particularly powerful"
X Link 2024-01-11T20:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@PureNobody101 @OrthodoxOrigen Superior to continental in every respect (what one might think of Carnap specifically is of course a different question)"
X Link 2024-01-11T21:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Christiane_ee Would it be mean on my part to express skepticism as to whether there could even be such a thing as a genuinely non-analytical philosophy (at least qua philosophy)"
X Link 2024-01-16T08:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Christiane_ee 1/ Above all I think that a high standard of conceptual and argumentative precision seems to be constitutive for carrying out philosophy in a properly theoretical way"
X Link 2024-01-16T10:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@SlaveOfTheLamb @AleMartnezR1 2/ This could only be the case if the term designates God in virtue of something intrinsic to God. He makes the point that while a divine act qua act is indeed intrinsic to God to describe it as an act of creation designates it by reference to something extrinsic to God"
X Link 2024-01-20T06:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@WriterJohnBuck @AleMartnezR1 1/ They could certainly fulfill some roles but with regard to resemblances between particulars in particular they seem to be "explanatorily idle". If both universals and similarities between particulars are grounded in facts about instantiation then these facts of"
X Link 2024-01-20T07:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The new Adobe Acrobat design is somehow impractical. Why does everything always have to be redone and why always for the worse 😐"
X Link 2024-01-22T08:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"I just realized that I'm so unfamiliar with contemporary popular culture that I literally don't know a single Taylor Swift song title"
X Link 2024-01-23T11:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@S1mpleS1mon @Don_DeYon But then it still seems to me to be important whether you have a broad or a narrow conception of evidence. If for example only measurable data counts as evidence then the statement that one is only justified in believing "evidentially supported" propositions is simply wrong"
X Link 2024-01-25T08:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@sasilik @SpeedWatkins 1/ Philosophical attempts to solve the mind body problem are not themselves scientific theories but rather attempts to develop models of how we can reconcile certain things suggested to us by the empirical sciences with what we already believe pre-theoretically"
X Link 2024-01-27T07:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"3/ There are valid deductive and strong non-deductive theistic arguments whose premises are such that they are at least rationally acceptable in the light of our scientific and everyday knowledge. What else could one understand by a proof in this context"
X Link 2024-01-27T08:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@n04m12 Seems like a good thing tbh"
X Link 2024-01-27T08:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"All the worse for non-analytic philosophy. πŸ˜πŸ™‚ @johnhboyer Scholastics were analytic philosophers sorry @johnhboyer Scholastics were analytic philosophers sorry"
X Link 2024-01-27T17:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@detjos_da There is a difference between evidence and measurable data https://twitter.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1743184155012194631 @WeeklyArgument I would say that there is a non-trivial difference. Evidence is anything that can contribute to epistemic justification whereas data is a special class of evidence that can be registered on a measuring device and used to justify empirical claims. https://twitter.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1743184155012194631 @WeeklyArgument I would say that there is a non-trivial difference. Evidence is anything that can contribute to epistemic justification"
X Link 2024-01-28T06:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen I think it depends on how broadly you use "Aristotelianism". Armstrong's metaphysics for example is usually referred to as Aristotelian because it is a constituent ontology with immanent universals"
X Link 2024-01-31T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@TyWilson87 @SecularOutpost 1/ Wouldn't the majority of those active in the philosophy of religion agree that the "logical problem of evil" is unsuccessful and that the problem should rather be understood as an evidential problem The reason for this is that we can never rule out the possibility"
X Link 2024-02-04T14:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"I don't really know what a so-called "Giga Chad" is but can we please agree that whatever it is this is what they look like"
X Link 2024-02-06T19:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen I want it back. πŸ˜”"
X Link 2024-02-19T06:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen I have access to his series "A New History of Western Philosophy". Would this be a place where he talks about this"
X Link 2024-02-19T15:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@SpinozaGhosty I have studied Spinozas ontology quite a bit and am by no means sure whether it is coercive (on the contrary it seems to me that there are ineliminable incoherencies). Classical theism will always win"
X Link 2024-02-20T15:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen @uncualesquieras I don't know what "rad" means. πŸ˜₯"
X Link 2024-02-21T17:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Dervine7 @MikeBenchCapon Scholasticism began to collapse before Descartes. Robert Pasnau goes so far as to remark that Descartes actually saved philosophy in this vulnerable post-scholastic period. Many have also pointed out the similarities between scholasticism and analytic philosophy"
X Link 2024-02-22T06:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@PhysInHistory Here are a few applications of Philosophy of Science that seem to be directly relevant to scientific practice (according to G. Schurz): (1) Providing decision-making aids for controversial questions in the individual sciences"
X Link 2024-02-25T18:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@PhysInHistory (2) Serving as a pioneer and framework discipline for new scientific disciplines such as cognitive science and artificial intelligence or natural language theory"
X Link 2024-02-25T18:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen In retrospect I find this a bit silly but when I didn't know much about philosophy I was simping for Jaspers"
X Link 2024-02-26T06:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Last night I dreamed of an action film adaptation of the biography of Thomas Aquinas in which he built like a strong ox and trained in martial arts had to put a stop to a dangerous group of heretics. Aquinas was tall and fit built like an Ox. Really just a tremendous imposing physical force both in body and mind. https://t.co/PZJN7d5PQn Aquinas was tall and fit built like an Ox. Really just a tremendous imposing physical force both in body and mind. https://t.co/PZJN7d5PQn"
X Link 2024-03-02T09:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Endnotes instead of footnotes seem pretty unethical. https://t.co/71JsclQaBD https://t.co/71JsclQaBD"
X Link 2024-03-04T11:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen Depends on what you mean by hyper-partisan. I have my moral ideas that correspond to Catholic social teaching and these seem to me to be incompatible with the programs of every political party I know. All programs fall equally short when compared to these requirements"
X Link 2024-03-08T17:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@lucus0514 Lmao"
X Link 2024-03-12T10:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"No Sir Im not lazy. I delight in the dignified Platonic Realm where it is not surprising "that the ones who get there are unwilling to occupy themselves with human affairs and that their souls are always pressing upwards eager to spend their time above""
X Link 2024-03-15T15:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen I chose Frege but for such a question philosophy in Austria-Hungary in the 19th century must also be taken into account (Bolzano Brentano Mach etc.). Many of these Austrian thinkers in turn were also strongly influenced by scholasticism"
X Link 2024-03-20T06:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"My bold Hypothesis (which I actually read somewhere): We owe analytic philosophy at least in part to the strength of Austrian Catholicism which was able to limit the influence of German idealism on academic philosophy in Austria-Hungary. 😎 @OrthodoxOrigen I chose Frege but for such a question philosophy in Austria-Hungary in the 19th century must also be taken into account (Bolzano Brentano Mach etc.). Many of these Austrian thinkers in turn were also strongly influenced by scholasticism. @OrthodoxOrigen I chose Frege but for such a question philosophy in Austria-Hungary in the 19th century"
X Link 2024-03-20T06:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen Based. (One should hold to it I think πŸ˜…)"
X Link 2024-03-21T14:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@McClureShawn Lmao"
X Link 2024-03-26T08:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"* By the way I don't know why these things show up so often in my feed. It's not that I specifically look for particularly childish anti-theist comments or that I follow these profiles. On the contrary"
X Link 2024-03-28T13:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@JustRickard Just do Philosophy of Biology (it's a great discipline) πŸ˜…"
X Link 2024-04-05T16:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Me: "I really shouldn't look so condescendingly on French philosophy." Meanwhile French philosophy: Probably no one will agree with me but I find this excerpt from the Derrida interview the funniest https://t.co/YITs35ZFRy Probably no one will agree with me but I find this excerpt from the Derrida interview the funniest https://t.co/YITs35ZFRy"
X Link 2024-04-09T10:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Yes. Divine Command Theory is other things equal a subjectivist metaethics. Can you be a theist and advocate for subjective morality Can you be a theist and advocate for subjective morality"
X Link 2024-04-11T05:15Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"Which way contemporary metaphysician (when it comes to term choice in the context of a substratum theory of particular objects like Socrates) a) Bare Socrates / clothed Socrates b) Thin Socrates / thick Socrates (I find both options rather funny) a) b) a) b)"
X Link 2024-04-23T16:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@BayouPhilosophy To be fair it wasn't really a serious question on my part. For me it was actually just about the choice of vocabulary that is whether one prefers to speak of bare particulars or thin particulars"
X Link 2024-04-23T20:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"* The PragerU approach to morality. The theistic approach to morality: The theistic approach to morality:"
X Link 2024-05-02T15:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"* I'm answering this way because the text would have been a little too long for the Twitter text field. if you are not a utilitarian i am curious why you aren't what about it do you regard as implausible (i am not a utilitarian to be clear; just curious about how others who are skeptical of it are thinking about this) if you are not a utilitarian i am curious why you aren't what about it do you regard as implausible (i am not a utilitarian to be clear; just curious about how others who are skeptical of it are thinking about this)"
X Link 2024-05-10T11:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Its there. πŸ₯Ή https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53666-3 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53666-3"
X Link 2024-05-21T08:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@ibn_afghani Unfortunately not. πŸ˜”"
X Link 2024-05-21T19:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"What type(s) of pens do you use to make marks in books"
X Link 2024-05-22T14:45Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"I have something similar going on with his name. πŸ₯² Reading the name Spinoza always reminds me of spinach. Dont ask me why. Reading the name Spinoza always reminds me of spinach. Dont ask me why"
X Link 2024-05-26T19:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@IoannesSilentio @Philip_Goff What about Lowes The Four-Category Ontology"
X Link 2024-05-27T07:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@JustRickard 1/ It seems to be a general methodological remark to the conclusion that it is not necessarily a fruitful approach to put investigations into coherence and consistency ahead of investigations into actual truth and validity. But yes the passage is only a very brief side note and"
X Link 2024-06-05T15:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Confession: I have never watched a single Star Wars movie from beginning to end. [--] years ago I would have thought you were crazy if you had told me that I would not care about new Star Wars movies/shows but here we are. [--] years ago I would have thought you were crazy if you had told me that I would not care about new Star Wars movies/shows but here we are"
X Link 2024-06-06T09:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@R2__314_______E My priest is actually from Kerala. πŸ˜…"
X Link 2024-06-07T19:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@SecularOutpost 1/ Very controversial but I sometimes sympathize with the idea that there might be (moral) obligations to be in certain emotional states (e.g. being obliged to love someone). However this is probably not independent of the obligation to cultivate and "shape" such states by"
X Link 2024-06-08T07:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@202404224N Yes he does. (It's two pages lmao)"
X Link 2024-06-08T15:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"I have three favourite persons. Do you guyz have favourite persons Do you guyz have favourite persons"
X Link 2024-06-15T06:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@jwolnfaf Aber wie erklren wir durschnittlichen Milchgenieer uns das hier πŸ‘‡ https://x.com/peta/status/1802834894403379690 cows milk is for baby cowsthats why ur tummy cant handle it πŸ₯΄πŸ’¨πŸ’₯ https://t.co/LIeRwkL9ay https://x.com/peta/status/1802834894403379690 cows milk is for baby cowsthats why ur tummy cant handle it πŸ₯΄πŸ’¨πŸ’₯ https://t.co/LIeRwkL9ay"
X Link 2024-06-18T10:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Catholicgabe Happy Birthday. πŸ™‚"
X Link 2024-06-18T12:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@MAstronomers Arda obviously"
X Link 2024-06-19T15:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"4 books Ive read in the past year. Your turn [--] books Ive read in the past year Your turn https://t.co/4XoFu23x5g [--] books Ive read in the past year Your turn https://t.co/4XoFu23x5g"
X Link 2024-06-22T12:11Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@PapistCourier 1/ Von Reclam gibt zweisprachige Einzelausgaben mit denen ich gute Erfahrungen gemacht habe (in der Regel mit sehr hilfreichen editorischen Endnoten ergnzt): Auf jeden Fall zur Kategorienschrift zu De anima Politeia und zum Parmenides"
X Link 2024-06-22T20:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@PapistCourier 2/ Fr (erschwingliche) Gesamtausgaben bieten sich wahrscheinlich die englischen bersetzungen von Ross (online zugnglich z.B. ber ) und von Barnes fr Aristoteles an fr Platon gibt es eine Gesamtausgabe in einem Band"
X Link 2024-06-22T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"It's actually one of the most retarded things I've ever seen. A man in Sweden burns the Koran in front of a crowd of Muslims While saying Go back to your Islamic country What do you think https://t.co/q3mL6lVDNO A man in Sweden burns the Koran in front of a crowd of Muslims While saying Go back to your Islamic country What do you think https://t.co/q3mL6lVDNO"
X Link 2024-06-26T19:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@JohnThePapist Ich raffe es auch nicht. πŸ˜•"
X Link 2024-06-29T13:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@_me_you_coward Having separate water with your coffee has nothing to do with America. Quite the opposite it has to do with civilization"
X Link 2024-06-30T14:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@the_Bradster007 Is it just me or is her vocal performance an exact mix (or a female version thereof) of Donald Trump and Arnold Schwarzenegger"
X Link 2024-07-01T10:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"My philosophy in a tweet as things stand: Ontology: hylemorphism (depends on the question asked though) Epistemology: Reformed epistemology; externalism about knowledge; pluralism about justification Phil. Rel.: Classical Theism Morality: Realism Ethics: Natural law/ Virtue My philosophy in a tweet as things stand: Ontology: some brand of dualism Epistemology: mostly Evidentialist Phil of Rel: agnostic strong lean atheist Theology: none Politics: uneducated in politics but generally liberal and progressive Morality: emotivism Ethics: Kantian My philosophy in a tweet as things stand: Ontology:"
X Link 2024-07-03T07:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@alec_sears A non-retarded unit of length"
X Link 2024-07-04T15:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@lethalluz Are existentialism classess more frequently attended by female students (I genuinely have no idea)"
X Link 2024-07-09T06:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@wiseconnector Norway probably"
X Link 2024-07-14T04:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"This goes so hard. 😭"
X Link 2024-07-15T18:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"I wonder what would have become of him if he had read analytic philosophy of religion instead of Schelling's "Philosophie der Mythologie""
X Link 2024-07-16T10:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ItalianPolish Who is this guy (I see him a lot here but I have seriously no idea)"
X Link 2024-07-20T11:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Countries I have been to [--]. Germany (trivially) [--]. Austria [--]. Swiss [--]. Denmark [--]. Sweden [--]. Norway [--]. France [--]. Italy I think thats it. πŸ˜… Countries I have been to [--]. Peru [--]. Ecuador [--]. Argentina [--]. Chile [--]. USA (Texas for 12h) [--]. Germany(live here) [--]. Spain [--]. Portugal [--]. England [--]. France [--]. Italy [--]. Austria [--]. Croatia [--]. Greece [--]. Poland [--]. Czech Republic [--]. Hungary [--]. Slovakia [--]. Luxembourg [--]. Morocco Countries I have been to [--]. Peru [--]. Ecuador [--]. Argentina [--]. Chile [--]. USA (Texas for 12h) [--]. Germany(live here) [--]. Spain [--]. Portugal [--]. England [--]. France [--]. Italy [--]. Austria 13."
X Link 2024-07-21T04:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"* "Switzerland" of course I was half asleep when I typed this. πŸ’€"
X Link 2024-07-21T05:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen Why not switch to the side of the based non-voters"
X Link 2024-07-22T05:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"- Excerpts from Dialogue with Trypho; Augustines Confessions and Aquinas Summa - Proslogion - Plantinga Augustinian Christian Philosophy - Stump Athens and Jerusalem - Relevant Articles from the T&T Clark Handbook of Analytic Theology The course is Introduction to Philosophy and Christian Thought. What texts are you assigning The course is Introduction to Philosophy and Christian Thought. What texts are you assigning"
X Link 2024-07-22T15:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Do moral facts care about my feelings"
X Link 2024-07-24T18:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@other_europe Based Malta"
X Link 2024-07-30T15:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@NYHorn Yes I'll probably settle on buying a new one but not too expensive"
X Link 2024-08-03T14:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@GGLamers @NYHorn Mein [----] gekaufter war (zumindest fr meine Verhltnisse) eigentlich recht teuer. Aber ich kenne mich auch wirklich so gar nicht aus. πŸ˜…"
X Link 2024-08-03T20:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@lethalluz Average Canadian"
X Link 2024-08-04T17:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Nobody: Adherents of continental philosophy: the fact that Derrida is not seen as the most rigorous and most serious philosopher of our moment is only proof of how utterly philosophy has fallen short of its task the fact that Derrida is not seen as the most rigorous and most serious philosopher of our moment is only proof of how utterly philosophy has fallen short of its task"
X Link 2024-08-04T20:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Wait "iced coffee" and "Eiskaffee" have different denotations 🀯 (consuming coffee below [--] degrees Celsius has to be criminalized anyway) German Twitter how do you distinguish Eis (ice cream) from Eis (ice) Trying to find iced coffee that isn't "Eiskaffee" is proving difficult. Settling on "kalte Kaffeegetrnke" but maybe something better exists German Twitter how do you distinguish Eis (ice cream) from Eis (ice) Trying to find iced coffee that isn't "Eiskaffee" is proving difficult. Settling on "kalte Kaffeegetrnke" but maybe something better exists"
X Link 2024-08-07T09:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@urenhet Happy Birthday"
X Link 2024-08-07T11:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"What is this"
X Link 2024-08-09T13:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@vivthetartan @HopefulTheism @ThisIsKyleR @FBI Hot take: Its conceptually possible to murder a non-innocent (whatever that means exactly) person"
X Link 2024-08-16T09:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"The young man at the supermarket checkout had just told me that I would look exactly like the lead actor in the new The Hunger Games movie. Is that bad or a compliment (I don't know this movie)"
X Link 2024-08-19T13:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@estrabismoooo @WriterJohnBuck Personally I would have difficulty accepting that we should a priori rule out on purely conceptual grounds that mentality is a natural phenomenon"
X Link 2024-08-20T15:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ze10113 I've seen different variations. But not so good if intended as an exercise for the long head of the triceps as the target muscle is not stretched enough. Also some variations appear risky with regard to shoulder impingement. At least that would be my take"
X Link 2024-08-22T17:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"What a beautiful field of research the ontology of music is 😳"
X Link 2024-08-24T07:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Now my laptop is finally dead. Until I get a new one I literally have to do my university work on my smartphone. We'll see how it works out"
X Link 2024-08-24T21:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen What are your thoughts on France (with respect to this question)"
X Link 2024-08-29T06:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"My parents are returning from Norway. I'm sure they're very proud that their son has managed the house and garden so well. A real adult. 😌"
X Link 2024-08-29T13:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"1/ Great. And also (directed to the philosophy of religion bubble): Would some of you who haven't read Nagasawa's book yet be interested in a kind of online reading group (here on Twitter) https://youtu.be/hHAZnMW0uXAsi=WOGd05ZUB9BGsCvO https://youtu.be/hHAZnMW0uXAsi=WOGd05ZUB9BGsCvO"
X Link 2024-08-31T19:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@pastorspomer I am poor and had to finance a new laptop and data recovery and I could not survive on wild berries alone. πŸ₯²"
X Link 2024-09-03T13:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist 1/ I believe that he understands this already beforehand. The incarnation involves not only mere satisfaction (in which a debt is paid - in some sense) but also God's sharing attention and union with every single human in all their suffering sinfulness and loneliness"
X Link 2024-09-05T18:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@GregoriusAdvena It might actually be that I read Candide before I read this book. I don't remember exactly"
X Link 2024-09-06T14:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Is there an atheological analogue to Chad McIntosh's series of review articles in Philosophy Compass on nontraditional and traditional arguments for theism"
X Link 2024-09-06T15:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

""When we have guests over I want you not to drink your coffee from your crusader mug." (My mother)"
X Link 2024-09-09T13:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"2/ different. 2) Although there seems to be nothing in the concept of an abstract objects that excludes the possibility that abstract objects can be "created" in some sense of the word it still does not seem to be the case that they "cry out for explanation". So it could well be"
X Link 2024-09-09T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"3/ that theistic foundationalists can have their cake and eat it too but arguments from abstracta to a divine mind are probably not very fruitful"
X Link 2024-09-09T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"2015: lutheran 2016: lutheran 2017: agnostic/ atheist 2018: atheist 2019: atheist/ agnostic/ hopeful theist 2020: christian theist 2021: christian theist (formally lutheran but attending catholic service) 2022: catholic 2023: catholic 2024: catholic"
X Link 2024-09-10T16:26Z [---] followers, 11.9K engagements

"@FactsMatterPpl @waldenpod The irony of such a comment under a post complaining about the stupidity of the mainstream abortion debate. πŸ’€"
X Link 2024-09-12T21:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"So you defend a trope ontology Name every trope"
X Link 2024-09-13T15:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@morallawwithin I will hold the door open and not go in even if it takes the other person a minute to even reach the door"
X Link 2024-09-18T13:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Pears are my favorite apples"
X Link 2024-09-18T14:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen It was a good pear. "Make your pick: Stanford or USC" - You mean which university is better In this case I have no idea since the westernmost place I've ever been was Lyon. πŸ₯²"
X Link 2024-09-18T16:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"The contrast to this is Bonaventure In Hex VII [--] & XIX 14"
X Link 2024-09-22T10:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"This is the kind of vulgar relativism that first-year students are presented with by their metaethics lecturers as a foil to elaborate metaethical positions. It is so stereotypical that it makes me grin"
X Link 2024-09-23T13:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"1/ Im not sure that the phrase "paths to reach God" necessarily implies a success condition. It seems to me it could be analogous to the case in which from the fact that there is no Fountain of Youth it does not follow that Ponce the Leon was searching for either nothing or Jimmy Akin Defends the Pope's Comments: A Response to Akin I go into way more depth in my video explaining the Pope's comments. Check it out here https://t.co/GgtlLKJijq https://t.co/AdYXaqYtED Jimmy Akin Defends the Pope's Comments: A Response to Akin I go into way more depth in my video explaining the Pope's comments."
X Link 2024-09-24T19:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"My little sister insists that John Paul II and Joe Biden look similar. 😐"
X Link 2024-09-26T17:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"What kind of trousers can a man wear in the cold season (At the moment I only have trousers made of very thin linen and I was told that wearing long underpants underneath might not be consistent with propotypical biblical masculinity)"
X Link 2024-09-30T12:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@JACuadriello Why Me (Kris Kristofferson)"
X Link 2024-10-01T20:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@JohnThePapist What is it that Finland doesn't have"
X Link 2024-10-02T06:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@lyssasphere Sorry for not expecting 1st century Roman coins minted after him. https://x.com/lyssasphere/status/1843326248879341612 @marginletter Except there is archaeological evidence for the existence of Caesar and the entire city of Rome and Greece as well. https://x.com/lyssasphere/status/1843326248879341612 @marginletter Except there is archaeological evidence for the existence of Caesar and the entire city of Rome and Greece as well"
X Link 2024-10-09T05:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@JosephBenJ2 For example the grounding and dependence discourse in contemporary metaphysics. There are also fairly simple terminological problems e.g. with the existing German vocabulary it is not easy to distinguish between faith and belief (the noun "Glaube" would be used for both)"
X Link 2024-10-12T20:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@JosephBenJ2 1/ I am thinking of questions about grounding itself (whether grounding exists what work it would do in metaphysical theorizing etc.). To translate a classic essay from this literature such as Jonathan Schaffer's "On what grounds what" word for word into German would certainly"
X Link 2024-10-13T05:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Absolute Chad. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=szeirNGHTa0 He was the most masculine presence I have ever been around. A friend of mine met Pope Saint John Paul II and conversed with him for a few minutes. I asked what it was like and this is what he said. https://t.co/wnXFQX3LEH https://www.youtube.com/watchv=szeirNGHTa0 He was the most masculine presence I have ever been around. A friend of mine met Pope Saint John Paul II and conversed with him for a few minutes. I asked what it was like and this is what he said. https://t.co/wnXFQX3LEH"
X Link 2024-10-13T11:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"It isnt a sin. And there might even be constellations where a Christian is OBLIGED TO REFRAIN from participating in the political process. What are your thoughts on this statement Is it a sin to not participate in the political process https://t.co/XaFOEXGNlk What are your thoughts on this statement Is it a sin to not participate in the political process https://t.co/XaFOEXGNlk"
X Link 2024-10-14T14:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@bigdaddymode 2/ typically arent consequentialists and should not be. The principle of double effect complicates things though"
X Link 2024-10-14T18:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Friendly Anglo-Saxons explained to me how to do it (thank you). Wait do people from the Anglosphere actually do their finger counting like in the picture on the left I tried this gesture and the biomechanics of my hand don't even allow it. 😭 Wait do people from the Anglosphere actually do their finger counting like in the picture on the left I tried this gesture and the biomechanics of my hand don't even allow it. 😭"
X Link 2024-10-20T14:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@dfziklag It is a great collection of her essays on ethics on what could be called philosophical anthropology and on theory of action. Some better known (like Modern Moral Philosophy) many less so"
X Link 2024-10-22T04:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@No5mallf3at @EddyEkofo 2/ model"). The only problem for getting started is that the coprus thomisticum is so extremely extensive. A good start for his metaphysics are arguably his shorter early treatises On the principles of nature and On being and essence. With the Summa I would recommend reading"
X Link 2024-10-27T08:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@No5mallf3at @EddyEkofo 3/ selected questions or articles first depending on which topic you want to see his position on (it is rather unrealistic to just read through the Summa or even just the first part in a linear fashion). Almost all of his works can be found online"
X Link 2024-10-27T08:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"So its my birthday (its over). πŸ’€"
X Link 2024-11-06T23:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"1/ From EN II.6: "But not every action nor every passion admits of a mean; for some have names that already imply badness e.g. spite shamelessness envy and in the case of actions adultery theft murder; for all of these and suchlike things imply by their names that they are"
X Link 2024-11-09T12:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@TradCatholicMan No. She is German. πŸ˜…"
X Link 2024-11-11T19:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen I can't imagine there's anything more to this than opportunistic calculation tbh"
X Link 2024-11-11T19:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I should probably start keeping bees or fishing. Just walking in the woods reading working out and annoying my little sister. Every day. That's pretty much all I do outside of university or church related activities. I don't even listen to music regularly and I hardly ever watch films. So now you know how boring I am. Just walking in the woods reading working out and annoying my little sister. Every day. That's pretty much all I do outside of university or church related activities. I don't even listen to music regularly and I hardly ever watch films. So now you know how boring I am"
X Link 2024-11-12T20:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Apparently everyone in the seminar knows my first name and I don't even know anyone's last name. 😭"
X Link 2024-11-19T08:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"I have no idea whatsoever what this suddenly ubiquitous figure is or what it symbolizes. https://t.co/WRxdP6qreN https://t.co/WRxdP6qreN"
X Link 2024-11-21T19:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@chudjak Chudjaks only want one thing and it's disgusting"
X Link 2024-11-24T20:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Frog in sunlight. Deer in headlights https://t.co/kWvTSnRI0n Deer in headlights https://t.co/kWvTSnRI0n"
X Link 2024-11-26T17:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@PeterScottGray 🀝"
X Link 2024-11-27T06:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

""What do we know about creating universes anyway" (C. Stephen Evans)"
X Link 2024-11-30T18:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Contrary to popular opinion this AI tool is excellent and produces valid results. 😎 This AI is broken and totally idiotic https://t.co/16WpXEKeqO This AI is broken and totally idiotic https://t.co/16WpXEKeqO"
X Link 2024-12-03T16:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@CarloMonteschio "I save you with your consent.""
X Link 2024-12-09T18:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Could be us (if only I had a based mustache)"
X Link 2024-12-13T16:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist Something like this (but here we see that one quickly runs into problems with arbitrariness i.e. where to draw the line)"
X Link 2024-12-15T18:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"I am currently sitting at a tabair (something that is a table not found at the base of the Eiffel Tower or a chair found there)"
X Link 2024-12-16T06:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Argh the picture on the left isn't from [----] (I was [--] but that wasnt in 2020) Why am I so stupid πŸ’€ Am I aging backwards https://t.co/W0KqSOJsjm Am I aging backwards https://t.co/W0KqSOJsjm"
X Link 2024-12-18T15:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"2020 in Denmark (i was [--] years old)"
X Link 2024-12-18T15:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"This is my little sister and she is not even "trad". πŸ₯² (I will probably delete it later since I didn't ask her)"
X Link 2024-12-20T16:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"One of my sisters (not the little one but the 21-year-old) apparently has an anonymous twitter account but - I assume for good reason - doesn't tell me her @ . Find her"
X Link 2024-12-21T21:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Am I retarded for not being 100% sure if those are blackberries ("Brombeeren" in my country) or mulberries ("Maulbeeren" in my country) What is this fruit called in your country https://t.co/fNs1T8ns0R What is this fruit called in your country https://t.co/fNs1T8ns0R"
X Link 2024-12-24T11:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"1/ So I'll say it even though the American mind may not be able to comprehend it: At no point in my childhood did I have any credence whatsoever in the existence of Santa Claus (as distinct from St. Nicholas which he obviously would be since they don't have the same properties). How old were you when you realized that Santa actually is real after all How old were you when you realized that Santa actually is real after all"
X Link 2024-12-25T06:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@ProfilStandard You should have used a Gigachad GIF"
X Link 2024-12-25T19:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Gm What does your Plato library look like https://t.co/rzGIMq2tDv Gm What does your Plato library look like https://t.co/rzGIMq2tDv"
X Link 2024-12-26T15:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@heiligetrinitat Yes. (Both versions are possible but saying "Platon" is more common I think)"
X Link 2024-12-26T15:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist 3/ properties are "grounded" in physical properties in the sense stipulated above then they cannot simply be reduced to the latter. And if they can be reduced to the latter then it seems inappropriate to say that they are grounded in them"
X Link 2024-12-30T18:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist 4/ This way of seeing the situation is familiar to me from the philosophers Paul Audi and Matthew Tugby. But others (e.g. Gideon Rosen) have tried to somehow link grounding and reduction. The Audi-Tugby point seems rather plausible to me"
X Link 2024-12-30T18:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Happy New Year to all may God bless and protect you on each and every day. (I'm late I know. I needed my beauty sleep)"
X Link 2025-01-01T06:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"It's white outside the sky is pink and at least from the window I can't see any significant remnants of fireworks. Good"
X Link 2025-01-01T07:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Can someone explain this to me"
X Link 2025-01-01T21:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen Maybe we are moderately distant relatives. πŸ₯Ή"
X Link 2025-01-05T15:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"So not only am I sick with the flu but I also have a (I suspect serious) shoulder injury that will probably keep me out of training for several weeks or months so I'll look like a noodle come spring. If anyone has any words of comfort for me thank you very much"
X Link 2025-01-08T14:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"I want my shoulder injury to go away. πŸ˜ŸπŸ’€"
X Link 2025-01-14T18:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@bigdaddymode Lol I may be blind"
X Link 2025-01-16T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"No particular order: Plato Aristotle Augustine Boethius Anselm Aquinas Scotus Kant Frege Moore Wittgenstein Quine Geach Anscombe Plantinga Alston Wolterstorff van Inwagen Adams (both of them) J. Haldane Korsgaard K. Fine J. Heil Oderberg Stump Who are your favorite philosophers (1) Plato (2) Hume (3) Hegel (4) Kant (5) Wittgenstein (6) Spinoza (7) Aristotle (8) Descartes (9) Plotinus (10) Sidgwick Who are your favorite philosophers (1) Plato (2) Hume (3) Hegel (4) Kant (5) Wittgenstein (6) Spinoza (7) Aristotle (8) Descartes (9) Plotinus (10) Sidgwick"
X Link 2025-01-22T10:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@CMorr81 Well insofar as a caloric surplus is conducive to increasing protein bio-synthesis it can make sense in some contexts to do something that could be described as "bulking""
X Link 2025-01-23T14:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@CMorr81 * It's not about converting fat into muscle. A moderate increase in body fat is simply an unwanted side effect of eating at a caloric surplus"
X Link 2025-01-23T14:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Apparently my southern German articulation organs do not allow me to pronounce such a simple word as "to wear""
X Link 2025-01-24T18:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"I have no idea who this is and at this point I am too affraid to ask Confirm him. https://t.co/l50kadU3jY Confirm him. https://t.co/l50kadU3jY"
X Link 2025-01-31T21:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@JohnThePapist I would at least ask her please not to do it"
X Link 2025-02-08T18:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@JohnThePapist * Maybe if married (i.e. never) but even then I'm not sure if that's a legitimate constituent of marital debt"
X Link 2025-02-08T18:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@LatFilosof I think its not about entailment. Cuneos argument is more like a parity or "companions-in-guilt" argument. That is he argues quite extensively that all the "prima facie problematic features" of moral facts can also be found mutatis mutandis in epistemic facts.)"
X Link 2025-02-10T12:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@estrabismoooo By a "haecceitistic difference" I mean a difference with respect to "non-qualitative" features only (Cowling uses this phrase in his SEP entry). I guess the main reason for constructing haecceities this way is to accommodate them in an ontology of resemblance class nominalism"
X Link 2025-02-13T15:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Art https://t.co/jndVrOCZ1t Art https://t.co/jndVrOCZ1t"
X Link 2025-03-01T16:40Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@LexDecs Why AI πŸ₯²"
X Link 2025-03-01T16:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@LexDecs Lol look at the Dutch of the previous post"
X Link 2025-03-01T16:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@LexDecs * However I think there is a very similar AI image circulating where the baby looks even more evil"
X Link 2025-03-03T17:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"So just take John Heils ontology and call it hylemorphic. https://philpapers.org/rec/RENWTF https://philpapers.org/rec/RENWTF"
X Link 2025-03-05T16:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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