Also, just keeping a more important self-image.
Who wants to have specialized, after spending tens of thousands of dollars, in a junior partner to the natural sciences that wasted time and ink for centuries?
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Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️
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Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️
@GhostCoase
Peaceful anarchist. Interested in criminology, international relations, 20th century history, evolutionary biology/psychology, philosophy and economics.
Katılım Şubat 2022
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It is likely philosophers would perceive deflationary views (e.g. moral anti-realism, empiricism) as making particular areas of philosophy seem less important and so it could be that some rejection is attempted rent-seeking, to keep the funding coming.
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@Benthamsbulldog For one thing, intuitions are shaped by background beliefs and knowledge.
Consider that it would seem less counterintuitive to think God is not necessary to explain biological complexity and diversity after learning about natural selection and that the Earth is very old.
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@Benthamsbulldog I think it is a mistake, essentially empirically falsified, to see one's own intuitions as universal and so others as simply dodging counterintuitive results, as well as somewhat dogmatic and uncharitable.
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One man's modus tollens is another man's "trying to hold on to a desperately implausible view in the face of very strong contrary arguments."
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Scholarly liberalism was more than halved in both the United States and outside of it between 2004 and 2017.
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However, realism did not decline from 2011 to 2017, perhaps implying scholars disproportionately become realists with time, such that the young cohort being quite non-realist need not dilute the share.
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International relations scholars from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa are the most realist, ones from Western Europe and Canada the least realist.
The 2022 survey also found higher rates of realism in East Asia.
trip.wm.edu/dashboard/facu…
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@bna_emperor A decline in Catholicism under the liberalizing First Republic was reversed by the Estado Novo.
By boosting literacy Salazar and Caetano also probably increased consumption of Portuguese literature.
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Political maturity is realizing that the communist USSR did a much better job conserving nation and tradition than even the reactionary dictators of Spain and Portugal.
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“Greater female choosiness doesn’t just explain males’ desperate attempts to wow the ladies; it explains all sorts of otherwise mysterious behaviour found across the animal world…”
stevestewartwilliams.com/p/sex-differen…
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New article on the constant deaths, beatings and torture in Ukraine's army, whose commanders idolize Russia's PMC Wagner
They even sell Prigozhin-style patches with the slogan 'KIA, we're with you'
Link to reply
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Wittgenstein once asked why we took it for granted that the Sun turned around the Earth. He was told it was because it looks like the Sun is going around the Earth — to which he replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked like the Earth went around the Sun?"
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@MissPavIichenko This is German propaganda translated into bad Portuguese, probably by the German embassy!
No Portuguese speaker would spell "mapa" as "mappa", "pp" does not even exist in Portuguese. Estado Novo censorship would not allow a depiction of the Portuguese army being non-neutral.
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That’s literal fascist propaganda from the Salazar regime
Adrian@AdrianCapatina1
@75metalT History repeats itself
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Respect can be understood as a costly signal, unlikely to be made by would-be adversaries, and so this is possibly not simply some backwards Russian fixation.
jstor.org/stable/2626708
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"Tsygankov's theory suggests that when it perceives its sense of honor to be recognized, Russia cooperates with the Western nations; without such a recognition it pursues independent policies either defensively or assertively."
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Moralization for mass death: "Johnson... dreaded the domestic political consequences of quitting in Vietnam... LBJ was haunted by the specter of Robert Kennedy rising in the Senate to read the roll of martyred South Vietnamese Roman Catholic nuns."
amacad.org/publication/lb…
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Excellent article surveying various explanations given as to why capitalist firms are much more common than labour-managed ones and critiquing the weaker ones.
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@RedFrontTweeter Ukraine was richer than Central Asia even before the Bolshevik coup.
Overall, the Soviet Union preserved the pre-socialist ranking of national incomes, with the Baltic republics as the wealthiest, like they were before 1940.
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Under the USSR Ukraine flourished. It was one of the wealthiest, industrialised republics in the USSR and anything positive it has now is directly related to the so called "violent occupation". Without the Bolsheviks there would be no Ukraine.
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The Soviet Union was an Empire that violently forced itself over other nations Russia is an Empire that violently forces itself over other nations When you commies tell Ukrainians you want the Soviet Union back, all you are saying is that you prefer Imperialism under red flags.
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Holcombe, 2002: contrary to a subset of the public choice literature, the coercive nature of the state, through a variety of specific mechanisms like cyclical predatory majorities, implies political markets are inefficient, unlike private ones.
link.springer.com/article/10.102…
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Classical realism as a conservative, European doctrine incompatible with American liberalism and neorealism as an attempt at reconciliation by American scholars.
jstor.org/stable/1407486
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