itsastickup
itsastickup t1_ir7b2la wrote
Reply to comment by HKei in "For evoking impossible entities, paradox has too easily been dismissed as philosophically suspect. Yet, far from entailing error, paradox suggests a “certaine valeur de vérité,” a particular type of truth inherent to language." by Maxwellsdemon17
LOl, sure :)
But so many parallel and orthogonal meanings and one that just outright defeats the purpose of its existence makes it difficult to use even with context, right?
(I actually very much enjoy the multiple meanings of the word; I wouldn't change the situation.)
itsastickup t1_ir75dnd wrote
Reply to comment by sQGNXXnkceeEfhm in "For evoking impossible entities, paradox has too easily been dismissed as philosophically suspect. Yet, far from entailing error, paradox suggests a “certaine valeur de vérité,” a particular type of truth inherent to language." by Maxwellsdemon17
I meant it tongue in cheek.
But still, in real life a paradox is something true but appears false. The multiple meanings (with Websters even condescending to a straight 'contradiction' as a final definition of about 5, in contradiction of it's meaningfulness of existence) makes use of the word quite tricky in public debate.
itsastickup t1_ir6uad2 wrote
Reply to "For evoking impossible entities, paradox has too easily been dismissed as philosophically suspect. Yet, far from entailing error, paradox suggests a “certaine valeur de vérité,” a particular type of truth inherent to language." by Maxwellsdemon17
It would be interesting to know when 'paradox' got twisted by logicians and mathematicians to mean seems true but is false instead of seems false but is true.
It's the latter that is genuinely useful and the original meaning. Trust logicians to fuck it all up.
itsastickup t1_iqoa97w wrote
Reply to comment by Parafault in Effect of COVID-19 Vaccines on Reducing the Risk of Long COVID by mightx
Depends on how you define it. In the UK's official definition:
...it's ANY symptom beyond 12 weeks. But peopled being crippled was only at 2% and targeted the same vulnerable people who were liable to die, the old and those with co-morbidities. Again, very very rare for younger healthy people.
My brother has had long-covid for a year because his sense of smell is compromised.
itsastickup t1_iwr6a7x wrote
Reply to AskScience AMA Series: We're Experts on Influenza (aka the Flu). AUA! by AskScienceModerator
Now that the American Heart Association recommends, since early this year, low-carbing and very-low carbing (aka Keto diets), and a Yale study in 2019 found keto diets significantly aided mice when infected by flu, do you think the covid-keto related studies should be restarted since the Yale study results appear to generalise to other lung-related viral infections (eg, mucous effect inhibiting viral ingress, and immuno boost)?
This is in the context of Keto diets being smeared as "No, keto diets won't stop you getting covid" and effectively ignored as a possible treatment, while studies that were proposed never happen. As far as I know there were no keto-covid studies in the end.
https://news.yale.edu/2019/11/15/ketogenic-diet-helps-tame-flu-virus