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Thinking about logic is a discipline of philosophy. Applied logic is math.
by grive 9y ago
Thinking about logic is a discipline of philosophy.
Applied logic is math.
- lotsofpulp 9y agoI'm referring to philosophy as the study of matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Applied logic feels like discrete math to me.
- rotrux 9y agoSemantic discussions (such as debating a definition) tend to make us intellerrrrlectuals argue about things we agree on, as appears to be the case here. It's helpful to split Philosophy into two over-arching conceptual umbrellas: - Epistemology - "how do we know what is real/true?" - Ontology - "what is reality/truth?" Epistemology is the portion of philosophy that likely rubs you the wrong way: theology is founded on epistemology. That said, so are linguistics & Political Science. In addition, mathematical NOTATION is a subset of linguistics, albeit an especially strict one. Logic, Algebra, &, not least of all, statistical-modeling are the spawn of ontology. Without the ontological sub-dicipline of metaphysics, there would be no mathematical innovation. Whether you think calculus was discovered or invented, it would never come about if Newton(/that-German-Guy) hadn't been considering metaphysics. Metaphysics rests on the theory that our epistemological-mathematical-notation provides a linguistic analog sufficient to describe the items & phenomena we have thus-far discovered as a species.