• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    You must be fun at parties, because I love having conversations like these. I usually learn a lot and I get to share my own similar esoteric interests. Epistemology is probably my favorite, but I love how it ties into Psychology.

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      I don’t know if you intended your comment to be humorous, but I found it hilarious. The phrase “you must be fun at parties” instinctually caused me to be on edge, because it’s so often said in an assholish, sarcastic way (especially online), but I was delighted to see that the rest of your comment thoroughly subverted that through nerdy earnestness. The contrast and the surprise was quite funny to me.

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      I have also loved epistemology ever since it was a required course in my high school curriculum.

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        I’m envious of that. I don’t think it was ever more than touched on for me, well into an advanced degree. I only got into it by trying to define my own perspective on reality. I was looking for ontology, which led to metaphysics, but I kept getting distracted by all the things I couldn’t know.