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aebtebeten | 29 days ago

From a contemporary viewpoint, Berkeley seems to have been a bit of an edgelord in his defense of faith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone#Origin

(or am I doing him an injustice and he was running with the whole Cartesian Demon thing to see just how far he could take it?)

Mumford (a grand-advisee of Castelnuovo's) on the infamous school: https://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/qed/archive/209

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gsf_emergency_6|27 days ago

Fwiw, (exotericised)

   Accidentally self-awakened patriotic^W self-reliant cynic
Seems like it could be somewhat ticklish, and

   Accidentally self-(right-)radicalising marginally-woke
Could almost be.

Btw, JD Vance claimed his wife is his spirit animal, so if he's a racist, he is at best the kind of racist who'd find it morally imperative that animals try and become human?

PS: have you figured out what math pros would call the satirical functor? It's alright to ask your kith kin or kollegen for help :)

aebtebeten|25 days ago

Unless it be one of the functors from Mathematics Made Difficult (1971) I shall have to ask my kith for counsel...