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by beedeebeedee 82 days ago
> Hegel is irrelevant in the age of measurement

That’s bs. Even just the preface to Phenomenology of Spirit is chock full of ideas that folks would be better off if they contemplated. Hegel can be considered a visual thinker (or visionary) whose ideas don’t need “measurement”. If folks understand his thoughts on the master-slave dialectic, for example, they would have an idea as to why we have such incompetent leaders like trump. His thought suffers from the same problem of any thinker who tried to be systematic, but it is still worth being inspired by.
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AndrewKemendo 82 days ago
The point is not “could someone get benefit from this” it’s that there are better heuristics to use and using old ones means you’re operating on old software

By that standard literally anything is valuable even as just an example of what not to do so it’s a meaningless measurement

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beedeebeedee 82 days ago
> there are better heuristics to use and using old ones means you’re operating on old software

You’re making a lot of pronouncements that are arbitrary to you

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AndrewKemendo 81 days ago
It’s a rare condition called having an educated and informed opinion
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beedeebeedee 81 days ago
I don’t want to punch down, but that comes across a lot like trump saying he has the biggest words.

You may not have the time or inclination, but there is a lot to learn from studying Hegel and the history of philosophy. No ‘measurement’ is required.

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AndrewKemendo 80 days ago
That was never a question.

There are structural limits to the Hegelian Dialectic being used as a universal epistemology

Marxism and other non-numerically based epistemology traditions refuse to accept this

The majority of people aren’t even as deep as hegel and yet even the hegelians still think they have a universal epistemology

when they have a keplerian version at best that hasn’t even heard of subatomic particles

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beedeebeedee 80 days ago
> That was never a question

You originally made the statement that "Hegel is irrelevant in the age of measurement", to which I objected. Unless you're going to back pedal further, you did find studying Hegel questionable.

I'm not going to go on the attack, but your pronouncements and self-certainty do not sound well considered.

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