Philosophers Survival Kit

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Here’s a basic, small kit for short term philosophical survival. This is my EDC.

Logic - This varies a bit, depending on what I am doing and where am going:

  • 3 or 4 Hypothetical Syllogisms
  • Modus Ponens (prescription strength)
  • 6 greek letters
  • One roll of material (equivalence)
  • 100 assorted parentheses, brackets and braces
  • 4 p’s
  • 4 q’s
  • 4 x’s
  • 4 y’s
  • 8 sets
  • 1 eraser
  • 2 truth values

Metaphysics

1 Sweeping Pronouncement (German Idealist, usually)
9 or 10 Commandments (sometimes I leave the covet thy neighbor’s wife one at home)
1 set of blinders
1 reification kit
(conclusion) jumpers

Epistemology

theory string
1 (at least) extra-large assumption
1 black box
1 watch
1 Snickers Bar

Perspectivism
Glock 37

There it is. Just the basics. Have I left anything out that I reallyt need?

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Brilliant. :laughing:

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to be fair, you left out ethics and aesthetics (then again, I think you have simply named them as they are made)… but then again, who needs ethics?

-Imp

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I keep a full ethics pack in my larger kit, which i keep in the car. Morality weighs you down - not so good for pocket carry. I figure the 9 Commandments will do in a pinch.

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That’s still one heavy block of stone FYI.

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Nah, not really. It doesn’t weigh that much since it’s all soap bubbles or pond scum depending on one’s perspective…