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It is like pulling weed, relentless in coming back.

Talk about poison! People are actually paid to come up with this stuff. It’s like a jobs program for mentally mediocre malcontents. I hope parents are paying attention and fighting back. And yanking their kids outta these schools whenever possible!

I am seriously concerned about our society that anyone would a) fall for the mask idiocy and b) send their little open minds to a public school in the USSA. We need to figure out where to create that Atlas Shrugged invisibly shielded place where we all can go to live intelligently.

… Realism v Nominalism … pick one.

“Peirce understood nominalism in the broad anti-realist sense usually attributed to William of Ockham, as the view that reality consists exclusively of concrete particulars and that universality and generality have to do only with names and their significations. This view relegates properties, abstract entities, kinds, relations, laws of nature, and so on, to a conceptual existence at most. Peirce believed nominalism (including what he referred to as “the daughters of nominalism”: sensationalism, phenomenalism, individualism, and materialism) to be seriously flawed and a great threat to the advancement of science and civilization. His alternative was a nuanced realism that distinguished reality from existence and that could admit general and abstract entities as reals without attributing to them direct (efficient) causal powers. Peirce held that these non-existent reals could influence the course of events by means of final causation (conceived somewhat after Aristotle’s conception),[1]and that to banish them from ontology, as nominalists require, is virtually to eliminate the ground for scientific prediction as well as to underwrite a skeptical ethos unsupportive of moral agency.” – from a review of Paul Forster’s Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism