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The Ontological Cat-astrophe

Academia Science Research Scientists

3 months ago 8.7K views 0 shares

The Ontological Cat-astrophe

The face you make when someone starts treating science as "what exists" rather than "how we know what exists." Nothing triggers a philosophy of science researcher quite like watching someone confuse ontology (the study of what exists) with epistemology (how we gain knowledge). That cat's existential crisis is exactly how I look during interdepartmental meetings when someone says "science proves reality."

It's A Dividing Issue

Math Science Academia Scientists

4 months ago 9.1K views 0 shares

It's A Dividing Issue

The age-old philosophical crisis that's caused more existential breakdowns than failed grant applications. Is math discovered or invented? Platonists sweat profusely while contemplating whether 2+2=4 existed before humans did. Meanwhile, formalists are smugly certain we just made it all up. Nothing like the mathematical foundations debate to turn a perfectly normal conference dinner into three hours of increasingly desperate hand gestures and napkin equations.