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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by choonway on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:17PM (#22564416)
That part about what claims sciences can make - has been addressed in statistical significance. No need to invoke philosophy.

The dark truths are even darker than that. It is what will get you deplatformed.

Paul has a very nice article on this somewhere on his blog. somewhere. lazy to link. something about things you can't say.

Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by claudiawerner on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:27PM (#22564469)
> That part about what claims sciences can make - has been addressed in statistical significance. No need to invoke philosophy.

This is not what I meant, nor is it what the majority of philosophy of science concerns itself with. I specifically mentioned epistemological basis[4]. Questions such as what deliniates science from pseudoscience, and what empirical investigation tells us about how things really are, are questions in the domain of philosophy[0]. Even so, what rigorous justification deliniates a good statistical significance from a bad one?

>The dark truths are even darker than that. It is what will get you deplatformed.

Sure enough, philosophy studies those too[1][2][3].

>Paul has a very nice article on this somewhere on his blog.

It's hard to see why PG should be considered an authority on philosophy.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/

[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speech-acts/

[4] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/#WhatKnow