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- Sun Mar 11, 2018 7:10 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: What are the achievements of Logic?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 28704
Re: What are the achievements of Logic?
This is supposed to be a philosophy site. In case you miss the subtlety of that, it means that if you disagree with someone, you are supposed to present contrary arguments. You may be surprised to learn that "Laughably incorrect" is not an argument. I'm listening...?
- Sun Mar 11, 2018 7:01 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: Infinity has gotten stranger
- Replies: 46
- Views: 15031
Re: Infinity has gotten stranger
Have any of you guys actually considered checking primary sources like Cantor and Russell before you post? I strongly recommend it.
- Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:45 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: Why is Fermat's Last Theorem so interesting?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1232
Re: Why is Fermat's Last Theorem so interesting?
"higher math never has any practical applications ... till it does. Non-Euclidean geometry had no practical application till some fellow named Einstein came along."
"This should be written in letters of gold above all our temples" (William Blake).
"This should be written in letters of gold above all our temples" (William Blake).
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:30 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: What are the achievements of Logic?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 28704
Re: What are the achievements of Logic?
You haven't heard that all of mathematics is reducible to logic? I'm not in a position to argue the case, but I understood that this had been achieved by about the beginning of the 20th C, due to the efforts of Russell, Frege, Whitehead et al.
- Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:58 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Who has a philosophy degree?
- Replies: 173
- Views: 48873
Re: Who has a philosophy degree?
I do. However philsophy degrees vary country to country greately if web forums are anything to go by, so perhaps elaboration is needed. For example I've noticed that Americans in posts use formal logic a lot, I'm guessing US degrees put great emphasis on it. Here we didn't touch it even slightly, s...
- Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:22 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: xkcd
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4500
Re: xkcd
http://xkcd.com/435/ _________________ Logic is; everything else isn't. Interesting strip. Quite specious, of course; like a politician's sound bite. I have been trying to think in what sense "sociology" could be defined as "applied psychology". It is not immediately obvious what...