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b_b  ·  4602 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Julian Friedland: Philosophy Is Not a Science
To quote in the markup, you should surround the text to be quoted | text | without spaces, same for all of the markups. Spaces kill them. Secondly, we haven't added collapsible threads, because we haven't really needed to yet. Its certainly been discussed. I'm not sure about the timeout bug; sometimes its a problem and sometimes not. We'll fix it eventually (I hope). To you comment about loading a separate page, we have it because otherwise you would need a reply box below every comment. Right now you can reply to the main post directly, but adding this feature to every comment would be impossible and unsightly. Thanks for the feedback; always appreciated.

As to your reply about the Morris piece. I agree that its not a "take down" of Kuhn, but I don't think its supposed to be. I think its Morris recounting his days studying under him, and his failure to grasp Kuhn's motives for being so vehemently married to his particular brand of relativism. Of course, he has to broach the philosophy to do this, but I think its more of a critique of Kuhn himself, almost settling a personal score in his own mind. Perhaps not Morris' best writing, but I'm a big fan of his, generally, so when someone throws out Scientific Revolutions, he immediately comes to mind.

edit: I just talk to mk, the boss 'round these parts, and he thinks collapsible reply boxes are an easy fix. So looks like I'm the tool there. Thanks for the suggestion! I think it'll look good and be more functional.