Fouccualt: Discipline me all you like, it won’t help.
Borugeoisoise: You know, this guy:
Empriricism: I can’t spell it, and experience has not helped.
Descratses: My mind has a problem with the body of this word, or something, Idk. Probably has something to do with the Pinal gland.
A Postreiori: No matter how much experience I get, I’ll never be able to spell the butt kind of knowledge.
RHLF: Ah yes, reinforcement human by learning feedback.
Praeto: My spelling, It’s not optimal.
Beaurcrat: Despite writing on an area of the philosophy of economics/ political philosophy heavily concerned with the actions of bearocrats I cannot spell the word to save my life. I sometimes worry about some academic beauracracy somewhere dedicated to punishing spelling freaks like me.
Philsopohy: Yes, believe it or not, I occasionally misspell the word “Phiolosopohoy”.
Grizzily: While for the ordinary philosopher, a failure to spell the common name of Ursus Arctos Horibbilis would not be so horrible, for an ursine philosopher it is a grave failing indeed. Polarising. Unbearable. Enough to drive an Arctian philosopher into hibernation. But I can’t panda to the audience, and I don’t want to boar you with my woes any more. My sloth as a cub left my orth-paw-graphy a grizzily mess.
Bonus words in philosophy I cannot pronounounce
Quine/Quinean: Qinn/Qinnean: I once told Michael Devitt after he corrected my pronounciation that at this stage of my life it was too late to mend my ways and I would be sticking with it.
Kant: Look, in fairness almost everyone gets this one wrong because the correct way to say it sounds like…
Your posts always make me smile. Only philosophy substack that does that
Even Bill & Ted can spell "So-Crates"