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Re:Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz by mannykannot on Sunday August 17, 2025 @10:30PM (#44936809)
The analysis you quote smells of vapid pop psychology. What empirical evidence exists for supposing that the result is reliably objective, let alone relevant?
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Re:Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz by hiAndrewQuinn on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:10AM (#44959805)
It should smell more like philosophy class 101 to you. "Either X or not X. If X, either Y or not Y."

I can point you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_table if you need empirical evidence that people sometimes actually think claims through sometimes for a few minutes. Otherwise I'm not sure what you're asking for.

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Re:Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz by mannykannot on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @08:49AM (#44961464)
A little later in the class, you'll learn that even completely false hypotheses can be logically consistent.

There is one question here, and you have failed to address it.

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