hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoIt's just that simplehexbear.netimagemessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down10
arrow-up1186arrow-down1imageIt's just that simplehexbear.nethexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square99fedilink
minus-squareGrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·9 months ago“Enough with your real world evidence. Let’s try a hypothetical I made up whole-cloth” isn’t really the intellectual zinger they think it is.
minus-squareVILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·9 months agoJorjor Wellington took this to its zenith, proving communism doesn’t work by inventing a story where it doesn’t
minus-squarezed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·9 months agoHypotheticals, thought experiments and their ilk are the greatest disease plaguing the human mind
minus-squareredtea@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 months agoWhole cloth? Like yards of linen?
minus-squareCannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 months agoNo, like a coat which, incidentally, requires 20 yards of linen to produce.
“Enough with your real world evidence. Let’s try a hypothetical I made up whole-cloth” isn’t really the intellectual zinger they think it is.
Jorjor Wellington took this to its zenith, proving communism doesn’t work by inventing a story where it doesn’t
Hypotheticals, thought experiments and their ilk are the greatest disease plaguing the human mind
Whole cloth?
Like yards of linen?
No, like a coat which, incidentally, requires 20 yards of linen to produce.