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by Ed Dirac
Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:29 pm
Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
Topic: To understand maths
Replies: 41
Views: 10515

Re: To understand maths

Hi everyone. I apologize for taking so long to answer. I haven't realize that there were answers. Thank you for answering and trying to clarify my doubts. Why is mathematics a language? Here are some definitions of language: a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional sy...
by Ed Dirac
Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:14 pm
Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
Topic: To understand maths
Replies: 41
Views: 10515

Re: To understand maths

Thanks you both. I was looking for the maths areas that I should study before studying philosophy of mathematics. I think I am going to study formal logic, set theory and mathematical logic. But I didn't know about semiotic it looks something to take in account so at the same time I will study Pierc...
by Ed Dirac
Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:14 pm
Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
Topic: To understand maths
Replies: 41
Views: 10515

To understand maths

Hi, I just finished my first University year (mathematics), and I am writing this since my main interests on mathematics are metamathematics , the philosophy of mathematics and its foundations. I think that to study and analyze maths from this perspective I have to know how to work in certain areas ...
by Ed Dirac
Fri Nov 21, 2014 3:15 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Meaning, extremity
Replies: 4
Views: 2021

Re: Meaning, extremity

Thank you very much to you both, The Voice of Time and HexHammer. You can never loose anything but your sanity from suffering, and you gain everything for every bit of happiness that you are able to ensure for yourself. So the person of sanity welcomes the challenge of hell and battles it until ther...
by Ed Dirac
Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:54 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Meaning, extremity
Replies: 4
Views: 2021

Meaning, extremity

Assuming that the inner liberty exist. Can you give or find meaning to the life in situations of a extreme suffering like in the Nazi concentration camps? It would be better to commit suicide to finish the suffering, or should we fight to stay alive?

Ed Dirac.