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Yeah wow that's a beautiful passage and analogy. Didn't realize Bertrand Russel was a poet as well as a mathematician!

• Koshkin 8y ago
  To be fair, this is not poetry, this is (good) philosophy; by the way, analogy (isomorphism etc.) is a powerful tool in mathematics and not just in poetry.
  • aldoushuxley001 8y ago
    Good philosophy and poetry are often interwined, one almost begets the other.
    • natalyarostova 8y ago
      Ehh... I know you mean this well, but for those of us into more rigorous philosophy of science I can't fully agree :)
      • aldoushuxley001 8y ago
        Why's that? There's a lot of pihlosophy of science that can be elegantly articulated.
        • FabHK 8y ago
          Elegant articulation can be part of good science and good poetry, granted, but in many other aspects the goals of philosophical writing and poetry are sort of opposed. FWIW, I find eg Nietzsche's (flowery poetic) writing terrible philosophy, in many ways. Arguably the hermeneutics/analytical divide is (partially) about this issue.
  • prepend 8y ago
    Prose poetry.
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• gcb0 8y ago
  he's most widely know for his work on philosophy