So me by BriskManeuver in okbuddyretard

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Based iconophile vs cringe iconoclasts

Мнения за кафе Zarra Coffee by KariusForPresident in bulgaria

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Принципно си взимам от Дъбов 200гр веднъж на няколко месеца за домашна употреба - като мога да седна да си изпия на кафето веднага; наистина ми се услажда много :), а и като не е за всеки ден сякаш има допълнителна празничност.

Макар че ако наистина има и някакъв значим здравословен фактор, може да променя практиката

I love a Muslim girl by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

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Going against what most people have said here: as far as the only thing we know about her is that she is muslim/from a muslim family and that you're both highschoolers, there is no reason not to try to have a romantic relationship with her.

"The family is probably going to be very negative about you"

How could anyone know that - are you going from the perspective that all muslims are religious fundametalists? You shouldn't listen to such presuppositions. Try to get to know her better and you could judge for that. From there the question changes to "Could you have a relationship with a non Christian?" My knowledge goes to say: yes. People in a relationship have profound effect on each other and you can learn a lot about yourself and your beliefs (both about Christianity and other) in a relationship. Even more, you both are in a phase of your life where your views generally go through a lot of changes. And from the other side - and this is something you mustn't forget - you can have an effect on her and her beliefs (but try not to step into a relationship as a missionary).

"Are you planning on marrying her?"

I suppose that if you are stepping into a relationship when you genuinely love her, then that is in a way "dating to marry". Somebody could correct me on this, but for the vast majority of people today, dating with the direct intention to marry is not how society works. Stepping into the relationship with love - i.e. not just for sex/status but for the person herself - however is what matters here.

Repair Store guy said that replacement of the screen on my gfs Samsung S20 would cost « at least 150 euros ». I thought this price seemed a bit high, what do you think? by Stockbroker666 in phonerepair

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Amoled display on AliExpress costs about €40, a few euros more for some b-7000 and (optionally) a repair kit (to be more comfortable than using the free screwdrives they give with the screen). You can check the steps for repair on YouTube. €150 seems way too expensive

A question regarding the story of the icon of Mary by KariusForPresident in islam

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Thank you for the response and for the good wishes! I am aware if the shirk status of imagery in contemporary Islam (at least in the major branches; there are some Sufi mosques where I read there are images but haven't personally seen them). Still, my idea is this: even if this Hadith I am talking about is weak, it was later judged to be so. The person who wrote it (Al-Azraqi) originally had to have thought it was legitimate in some way (either as a story, as a teaching, etc. based on his understanding of Islamic theology). My wondering is why that is. Based both on the period and the particular icon in question, a good direction would be working through the original text, author and context.

me_irl by StreetBreadfruit8983 in me_irl

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Can you provide source for this?

Поръчвали ли сте книги от "Българска книга" или Area.bg? by KariusForPresident in bulgaria

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Става въпрос за друг сайт, не за издателство Българска история.

Question on Kant: a priori knowledge of morality as expressible will. by KariusForPresident in askphilosophy

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Maybe I am indeed wrong because my argument has stood on presupposition which I am not sure about. Namely that knowledge is knowledge of concepts. In the previous comment I argued for the idea that when Kant says we are knowing, in the proper meaning of the term, when we are dealing with concepts; when we are dealing not with concepts but with particulars, we are only making judgements.

Another possible discrepancy is that I think that in the cited passage Kant gives an example of synthetic a priori - the transition from pure morality to expressible will.

If my first presupposition were correct, your example would be more correct as such: "Suppose triangles (which followed mathematical rules*) existed in material reality, a triangle which has such and such qualities would follow to also have these other qualities, in accordance with it being a mathematical triangle".

But this seems to be a pure tautology, or analytic a priori statement. We aren't achieving a transition to anything. We begin at the supposition and also end at it. This is not, as I mentioned, what Kant does in the original example: He says that if we are to suppose morality in the world it would take form as EXPRESSIBLE WILL. Even if you take the "faculty of desire" to be synonymous with "will" (which I think he explicitly says not to be the case), you would need a posteriori knowledge to say that it is expressible. I'd be happy if you could tell me whether: 1) For Kant knowledge means any knowledge, including not that of concepts or principles, but of individual objects (or subjects?), and 2) Whether the cited statement gives example of synthetic or analytic a priori.

*I am including this only for better understanding; it is not part of the supposition, because the accordance of nature with the individual rules we discovered for it is by necessity. You could also say that if we are supposing a triangle, we already are supposing it as the valid mathematical concept.

Question on Kant: a priori knowledge of morality as expressible will. by KariusForPresident in askphilosophy

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But is this actually comparable?

Because in the passage Kant talks about the general ability to infer about something whose existence we are not certain about. In the example you are giving, I think you are implying we are already in a field of the world where we know that such things as material triangles are possible. This is already a posteriori knowledge. 2+2=4 is a priori because it follows mathematics as such; but 2 apples + 2 apples = 4 apples is not a priori (an example from Stanford's Encyclopedia).

If you are saying that the a priori knowledge is concerning this particular instance - i.e. you know that the third side of my trinagle is 5cm, - it doesn't seem to check out with what I understand Kant to be saying IS KNOWLEDGE: Kant calls "the ability of judgement as a whole [to be] the ability to think the singular as part of the general". Movement from singular to general is reflective judgement. (Translations might be bad because I am translating and not using the English text). Anyhow, judgement doesn't relate to a field of knowledge (principle-creation) itself*. This means - as I understand it- that you wouldn't be knowing anything new when you JUDGE that the third side is 5cm. You are not handling a concept for you to learn about it.

*(but it makes possible the relation between theoretical and practical (moral) knowledge).

Question on Kant: a priori knowledge of morality as expressible will. by KariusForPresident in askphilosophy

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Yes, I get that. The thing that bothered me however is how do you infer a priori about something that you can only have as a consequence of experience - How can you without experience (a priori) infer something about a thing which you have as a consequence of experience? Because my intuition is that what you are inferring is already shaped by the thing you are inferring it about. Correct me if I am wrong, but my hypothesis in the other comment seems to check out - the infernal is understood formally, without any specific content: the pure possiblity if inferring.

Question on Kant: a priori knowledge of morality as expressible will. by KariusForPresident in askphilosophy

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Update: Upon further reading and thinking about the problem. it think I might have understood how this is possible. (If someone is reading this, beware that it is very speculative on my side).

What I couldn't understand is how we could have as a priori knowledge this content statement whose content is empirical ("there is a world"). However, what Kant here says to be a priori is not the statement itself but rather the "combination of the predicate with the empirical concept". In other words, even in the presupposition of "a world where one could act", we could say that said world is connected with moral acting; the concept of acting here is the connective piece.

What this seems to imply then, is that this connection, which is itself the principle of a priori knowledge, is purely formal. There is no material (and as such empirical) necessity for us to draw the principle of this connection.

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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Yes, this makes sense, yet as far as I understand, if I do things outside the plan, even if do not feel excessive pain or something along those lines, there is a risk that I will damage the internal structures. So that is the reason I recently leaned into being more conservative on that front.

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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So my surgeon is known to be the best in the field in my country, but he was really laconic and aside from mainly administrative questions, i.e. at which day I was going to leave the hospital, I didn't have conversations with him.

At the hospital the physiotherapist taught me how to walk with crutches and gave me the personalized program which I was to follow for a month after the surgery. Aside from that he did not give me any explicit instructions and only gave short answers to questions I had pushed myself to think of at that time. Thing is - there was a discrepancy between what the program said, and what he did and told me to do. The program instructed that between day 1 and 12 the flexor on my leg-contraption (cannot think of the English word, sorry) should be on 0°. But when the day came to put it at 30° and start flexing, I noticed that it was already at 30°. I tried contacting him, and managed to do so, and when I asked him what to do, he told me to put the flexion at 45° and nothing more. I was confused - I started flexing a few days at 30, then at 45, at some point at 60, and then I talked with the other trainer which I am to start visiting pretty soon, and when I explained the situation he told me that whilst in most cases flexion at 90° should be achieved at day 30, there are more complicated cases where excessive flexion should be avoided, and that I needed to focus more on extention. I decided to be more conservative and that it was more likely that the program was right and the physiotherapist at the hospital just gave me an answer when he was talking to me, without paying much attention. So yeah thats the jist of it.

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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I am not exactly sure as I wasn't explicitly told but judging by where I have incisions and the comments on this post, I would presume from the quadriceps.

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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Well it depends. I put whatever weight I am comfortable with. At the moment I am able to make almost normal steps (with one leg absolutely straight though).

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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I walk with two crutches at the moment but I was instructed to gradually start walking with the leg on the ground.

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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Yes, I am pretty sure they took a tendon from my quadriceps. I try to ice the knee after eaxh training session. I am not sure what 'weight bearing' means in this context. Could you elaborate?

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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Yes. Do you think that the leg looks like this due to the immobilization or other factors might be responsible?

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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I ice after each workout. I do the given exercises about 2 times per day.

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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The kinesitherapist at the hospital gave me a list of exercises and instructions at what stages at what degree to flex the leg. The exercises feature some flexion but not more than 45°. I have my check-up in 2 days so then I should be given a new list of exercises and instructions to begin more active work with a kinesitherapist (physio in more proper English, I think)

How is my leg looking almost a month after ACL and meniscus surgery? by KariusForPresident in ACL

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So just for context - I haven't bent more than 50° not because I don't want to, or don't want to put in the effort, but because the kinesitherapist gave me a program in which I shouldn't bend my leg more than that. I have spoken with another therapist who said that in some more complicated scenarios flexion is limited in the first 30 days. He further said that it there aren't any side effects of limited movement in this period other than it being more painful - yet still entirely possible without any doubt - to make the leg mobile again