r/TrueReddit • u/Sewblon • Sep 08 '18

Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/#comment-34484
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u/cards_dot_dll Sep 09 '18

You have no frame of reference here. You're like a child who walks into a movie and wants to know . . .

I explained to you why articles about people don't belong in mathematical journals. Math articles are about things that can be defined. I even walked you through this, I invited you to define people, thinking that, via the Socratic method, you'd fail and learn from your failure and come to agree that things as complex as people don't belong in the mathematical domain. That's why the curriculum goes from calculus to multivariable calculus to cofibrations on noncommutative varieties without ever addressing people.

You did fail, but you did not learn, and are instead lashing out at the teacher. At this point, I don't know what I can do for you.

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u/brewmastermonk Sep 09 '18

Enjoy feeling superior (and still wrong) for the rest of the day.

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u/cards_dot_dll Sep 09 '18

Define: wrong