This should be moved into chat. Politics or philosophy don't have a snowball's chance in hell of improving someone's trading.
Giving up monetary control and disintegrating regulations is naive. It's amazing how useless we become when there is a diffusion of...
Reading Ayn Rand is like reading an entire one sided review of a movie before ever seeing it. People ought to get a background in some classical...
They didn't like it when I brought Hume into a discussion with the coveted wisdom of JH....
Better tread carefully, Socrates. You were killed because people did not like to have their beliefs shook at their (questionable) base. I'm...
It's only a matter of time until Euthyphro (Jack Hershey) comes in to this thread. So sit tight Socrates, just stay away from that hemlock.
I don't have any difficulties in questioning my own beliefs or methods. You, on the other hand.... If only talking about sympathetic and...
Why EMA's? SMA's for life. Let's keep it simple.
Yea, when I'm trading, the last thing I'm thinking about is philosophy. It's actually nice to get away from it for a change, and just act on what...
Science is affirming the consequent because it uses observations to affirm a hypothesis. I would certainly hope that science is trying to prove...
You've written three posts bashing this, but you still haven't come up with a solution to Hume's objections of science inducing causal relations...
And there's no better way to do that than become a philosopher. If I didn't study the stuff, I may actually have picked one philosophy over...
Hume would say you wouldn't even know if induction could apply to any statement. It would then be foolish to make any scientific claims. I think...
No one ever lost money if they fully believed Hume, because they would be too skeptical to even pull the trigger, since predictions are dependent...
I'm talking about more of formal conclusions, like those given in logically structured arguments where premises are laid out to support the...
Greg, philosophers personally come to conclusions all the time, and they argue with eachother all the time. But if philosophy wasn't...
Philosophies in particular come to conclusions. But as a whole, just like any other diverse discipline, there are disputes. To the guy who...
Err I typed Leibniz as an empiricist, oops. The main point is that empiricism, of any kind, depends upon experience. Experience can be...
Jack Hershey, I'm talking about Hume. The major empiricist after Descartes who didn't have a solution to empirical skepticism, where the earlier...
The kind of skepticism that makes you doubt you're even sitting at a computer, making trades. Let alone, the trading decisions you make could...
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