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This is a result in logic, a branch of mathematics. Logic, as practiced inside mathematics, is far more advanced than what's practiced inside philosophy departm
by dkural 11y ago
This is a result in logic, a branch of mathematics. Logic, as practiced inside mathematics, is far more advanced than what's practiced inside philosophy departments. Something like more than 95% logic professors inside philosophy departments cannot competently explain anything in logic after Godel & Tarski.
- foldr 11y agoIt's not a result in logic. The question of which properties (if any) exist is not a logical question but a metaphysical one. Of course, philosophers often make use of results in mathematics. If you arbitrarily decide that any philosophical work that does this in some sense "doesn't count", then of course you will find that the remaining work concerns results that are less than certain! It's in the nature of questions that can't be answered through mathematical methods to have less than certain answers. You might notice that many of the most important questions in life fall into this category, though.
- drdeca 11y agoIt seems to me that there is no clear break between logic and philosophy? Nor between logic and mathematics. There is also the idea that part of why philosophy is dismissed is because people tend to take results and say that the result isn't really part of philosophy. Could this be because their idea of philosophy is that it has no results, so any results they are shown are concluded to be not part of philosophy?