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The rules of logic should be applied in philosophy as in physics. If you don't do that, or there is no competent judge (e.g. teacher) things tend to get out of
by jraedisch 10y ago
The rules of logic should be applied in philosophy as in physics. If you don't do that, or there is no competent judge (e.g. teacher) things tend to get out of hand, especially with people studying philosophy because they "can't do math".
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y agoI thought people do programming because they "can't do math"?
- jraedisch 10y agoThere are varying degrees of "can't do math", programming's being slightly above philosophy's (IMHO).
- foldr 10y agoIYHO as a web developer!
- jraedisch 10y agoThat's just my job.
- foldr 10y agoI'm sure philosophers also like to think that they're better at math than programmers.
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y agoOr at the very least, more humble.
- _glass 10y agoThe rules of logic are applied in philosophy for sure. That's the discipline that came up with the concept.
- AlgorithmicTime 10y agoThey seem to have given it up at some point. Or at least a good portion of them did.
- bbctol 10y agoBut how do we decide what "the rules of logic" are? And here we go...