• 31 Posts
  • 334 Comments
Joined 5 years ago
cake
Cake day: August 24th, 2019

help-circle











  • I agree with the first sentence to a certain extent. The problem I think is how much we want to concede something as being metaphysical vs dialectical (both being in contradiction with each other). Within the study of the human body, there are many different fields that do not entirely interact with each other: one is concerned with studying the illnesses of the body (medicine), another is concerned with studying the metabolism (biology). Nutrition, pharmacology, biomechanics, sport sciences, etc.

    Where is the metaphysics there; is it in the number of fields, in what they study and focus on? I think that’s the crux of the question and I don’t have a definitive answer yet.

    Likewise, I wouldn’t say that knowledge in every field = dialectical. Dialectics looks at processes and certainly needs to look at the entire process, but it doesn’t have to look at every single process and contradiction that exists. Rather, I think we would start having to think about how we teach science differently, in a way that’s dialectical. Though again that’s the original question lol. So to summarize, I would more easily say that I don’t see “knowing specialized knowledge” as being contradictory to dialectics.




  • It was a land swap to which Finland would have come out ahead. They would have received more land of equal value in the trade in the Karelia region.

    The point of the swap was to move Finland’s borders further from Leningrad, which was close enough to Finland that they could shell it from their side. The USSR was ultimately proven right as Finland joined with the Nazis in invading the USSR after Barbarossa.



  • Citizen @wtry@lemm.ee ! For crimes committed against the People’s Republic of Lemmygrad, its people, its institutions, and its Constitutionally-protected dictatorship of the proletariat!

    You are at this time accused of the following charges:

    • Using AI to craft answers for you!
    • Refusing to answer questions by our comrade investigators in the Stasi!
    • Upsetting our peaceful order and inciting sedition in our dictatorship of the proletariat!
    • Being smugly liberal!

    We, the highest court of the People’s Republic of Lemmygrad, sentence you to exile for these transgressions! Your exile is effective now, and is not conducive to a retrial or appeal! The sentence is pronounced!