{"id":2760,"date":"2013-03-29T21:15:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T01:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2013-03-29T21:15:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T01:15:55","slug":"you-think-this-has-nothing-to-do-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/29\/you-think-this-has-nothing-to-do-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"You think this has nothing to do with you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy is disparaged often enough, and by people who ought to know better.\u00a0 As of late, every time this happens I think of this scene &#8212; <strong>but with the text (something like) below<\/strong>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: relative; left: -125px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1LVptO7o4L8\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh. Okay. I see.<\/p>\n<p>You think this has nothing to do with you.<\/p>\n<p>You go to your desk and you select, I don&#8217;t know, some statistical mathematical model, for instance, because you&#8217;re trying to show the world that you take science seriously and follow what you think are established scientific practices.<\/p>\n<p>But what you don&#8217;t know is that that mathematical model is not just established science.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a data model.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a model of phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a deductive nomological model.<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 1277, the Bishop of Paris proclaimed that a multiplicity of worlds could exist.<\/p>\n<p>And then I think it was Pascal, wasn&#8217;t it, who argued that probabilistic mathematics could be applied to situations?<\/p>\n<p>And then mathematical models quickly showed up in many different philosophies.<\/p>\n<p>And then it, uh, filtered down through to natural philosophy and then trickled on down into some basic handbook of science, where you, no doubt, adopted it without another thought.<\/p>\n<p>However, that statistical model represents millions of hours and countless lives.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s sort of comical how you think that you&#8217;ve made a choice that exempts you from philosophy, when, in fact, you&#8217;re using ideas that were selected for you by the people in this room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy is disparaged often enough, and by people who ought to know better.\u00a0 As of late, every time this happens I think of this scene &#8212; but with the text (something like) below&#8230;.. Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your desk and you select, I don&#8217;t know, some statistical mathematical model, for instance, because you&#8217;re trying to show the world that you take science seriously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-random-idiocy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}