Year: 2008

Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy

Life & Notes2008.12.31
Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy
If I were recruiting a crew, of course I would need to explain what sort of style and route this ship more or less has. When it comes to a program, it is actually a rather ambiguous thing: it is either too general or too specific. It can be condensed to a single character, “love” or “I”; to two characters, “freedom” or “seeking”; to three, “play games” or “possibility”; to four, “preserve sameness while seeking difference” or “strive for excellence”; to five, “know yourself” or “that old bear of a mother-in-law,” and so on. Any of these could be posted as a slogan at the entrance to Suixuan. Of course,…
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2008年12月31日
From Fisherman to Pirate

Life & Notes2008.12.30
From Fisherman to Pirate
The will that is inherited, the surging currents of the age, people’s dreams… these are things that cannot be stopped. As long as people continue seeking the answer to freedom, they will never cease! Recently, an online friend thought I was impressive and said he wanted to imitate my way of studying. Of course I told him, please, don’t ever do that. My lazy, irregular, and unambitious way of studying—if anyone else tried to imitate it, it would almost certainly be ruined. And I myself have always faced the danger of becoming a heap of useless waste who accomplishes nothing, so it’s definitely not something to take casually. More to…
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2008年12月30日
[New Pinned] Message Board

Site Matters2008.12.29
[New Pinned] Message Board
[New Sticky] Message Board Gu Chu posted at 2018-12-29 21:25:05 Who are you? Read847 times Comments20 Personal homepage Drop a note Folder: Suixuan—Gu Chu [New Sticky] Message Board Gu Chu posted at 2008-12-29 21:25:05 Is it fun? Suixuan » Posts » [New Sticky] Message Board » Comment replies West Wind Alone in the Chill 2010-09-15 22:58:33 [Reply] -。- I just suddenly felt like leaving a message for an impressive person It was only because I happened to find this while searching for Dong Gezhi Middle School. 0.0 griffth 2009-09-05 22:35:44 Anonymous 116.252.101.193 [Reply] I want to ask a question What is strategy What is tactics Ji Zha 2009-08-14 13:43:48 [Reply]…
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2008年12月29日
Classroom Presentation Script on Realism and Anti-Realism

History of Science & Scholarship2008.12.28
Classroom Presentation Script on Realism and Anti-Realism
Realism can be said to be one of the major questions in the history of science and a problem that reaches far back and ramifies widely. It can at least be traced to the dispute between Plato and Aristotle, and it was also one of the main topics of medieval scholastic philosophy. In contemporary philosophy of science, as well as in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and so on, realism is also an inescapable theme. The definition of realism and anti-realism is likewise highly uncertain. What counts as realism from one angle may count as anti-realism from another. The treatment of realism in this material is rather…
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2008年12月28日
[Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables

Life & Notes2008.12.26
[Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=882 Time: Friday, December 26, 2008, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Place: Academic Lecture Hall, Center for Science and Society, Chengze Garden Speaker: Bai Tongdong, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Xavier University, USA Topic: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—Using Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables as an Example Commentator: Liu Huajie Although I couldn’t really raise any questions, and Monday’s report can’t really continue along this line, today’s lecture was quite interesting. What I found interesting was not the topic itself, but rather the many inspirations that Professor Bai mentioned in passing during his talk. As for the topic, my reaction was rather like that of the journal office supporting orthodox quantum mechanics—although…
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2008年12月26日
I Recently Started Writing a Log on the Campus Network

Site Matters2008.12.24
I Recently Started Writing a Log on the Campus Network
It’s been more than two weeks already, but I should still announce it here～ http://xiaonei.com/profile.do?id=7755 Why did I think of writing logs on Xiaonei? First of all, unlike here on Suixuan, the logs on Xiaonei are not the product of my overflow. Although I only write two sentences a day, or even two words, this result is “squeezed” out rather than “flowing” out. When I am writing frequently, the text here on Suixuan may amount to one or two thousand characters a day, but that is a very effortless thing; whereas those two sentences a day there are terribly hard to produce, and I also don’t know how long I…
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2008年12月24日
At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation

Life & Notes2008.12.22
At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation
Wu Lao-shi’s translation assignment has remained untouched to this day; it will probably get fully underway during winter break. The reason I’ve dragged my feet for so long is, of course, first that my foundation in both English and phenomenology is too weak; second, because of my incurable laziness and old-fox style of doing things. But there is also an indirect factor: I simply cannot stand typing out words from my own pen that make no sense. If it were an English-to-Chinese translation in an English exam, then of course I could quickly write down a load of gobbledygook, just as in a politics exam I can more or less…
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2008年12月22日
An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm

Life & Notes2008.12.17
An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm
In one sentence: there has been no progress. On the Progress of My Search for a Girlfriend In one sentence: there has been no progress. There are very few applicants, but there are indeed several—at least three, in fact—mostly second-year master’s students. It seems second year is a delicate period… The applicants before this were basically all frightened away. In the previous article I already said that I merely adopt a very ordinary cool indifference; I would never pretend to be anything in order to scare people off. On the contrary, the so-called methods of frightening people amount to nothing more than laying bare my true characteristics. Judging from previous…
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2008年12月17日
This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)

Life & Notes2008.12.16
This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)
Newman’s MP4 really is awful. Though it’s nice that it can play lossless files, there are simply too many lossless files that explode with clipping; by experience, one can generalize that APE is usually more prone to clipping, and the higher the quality of the music, the more likely it is to clip. But the “Antique Vacuum Tube String Baroque” album I downloaded recently is a counterexample—it is both APE and ultra-high quality, yet it plays with remarkable smoothness…… This is also the first time I’ve clearly heard the difference between lossless and MP3. I don’t even know exactly what this vacuum-tube microphone is, but it really is different! This…
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2008年12月16日
How I Forced Myself to Write a Paper

History of Science & Scholarship2008.12.16
How I Forced Myself to Write a Paper
My way of writing papers is not in the least worth boasting about, and even less suitable for promotion as a model. Everyone who writes with their own blood must have a unique style and method of writing; others cannot imitate it, nor is there any need to imitate it. Of course, my own way of writing is still in the process of being explored, especially since I still have not been able to begin making use of the vast ocean of foreign-language materials; moreover, the purpose for which I write papers is bound to change. So far, the papers I have written have basically all been course assignments, while…
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2008年12月16日