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If you buy into Wittgenstein's rule-following paradox. You could say anything about anything. > no course of action could be determined by a rule, because any
by ukj 7y ago
If you buy into Wittgenstein's rule-following paradox.
You could say anything about anything.
> no course of action could be determined by a rule, because any course of action can be made out to accord with the rule
If I had my own way of (mis?)interpreting him, I think he was alluding to what we now call "strict evaluation" in Programming Language Theory. A diligent rule-follower.
- guerrilla 7y agoStructural engineering the same kind of activity - creation. The significance of the creation (if it has any at all) is not necessarily the concern of the creator. Some people do structural engineering for its sheer beauty.
- ukj 7y ago[Scientific discoveries|Mathematics|Ethics|Political science] are the same kind of activity - creation. The significance of the creation (if it has any at all) is not necessarily the concern of the creator. Some people do [Scientific discoveries|Mathematics|Ethics|Political science] for its sheer beauty.
- guerrilla 7y agoYes, that's my point. It applies to anything that is creative and dismisses the original point through abstraction.
- ukj 7y agoYou didn't make a point. You asked a loaded question. It backfired on you.
- guerrilla 7y agoMy question asking if you value products of philosophy that have become essential to our society neither contains an unjustified assumption and thus is not a loaded question and still stands and thus has not backfired.
- ukj 7y agoIt was loaded. It contains an unjustified assumption that “logic, the art of making distinctions, the study of critical thinking and the foundation of mathematics" and [other?] art belong in different categories. It also takes an incomplete view on "critical thinking". Drawing distinctions is complemented by abstracting similarities. The creation of knowledge (in all its forms) is itself a form of artistic self-expression. It is essential to humans, and therefore essential to society. As a programmer my medium of self-expression is software. I am an artist as much as I am a logician and a scientist. What I do is create. It also happens to be useful to others, which is why it pays fucking well too.
- guerrilla 7y agoIt literally asks that as a question, posing it as the hypothesis under question.
- ukj 7y agoYour question was answered before you even asked it. > It matters for people who find it valuable, the same way art, music or literature matters. Key phrase "the same way". There's nothing wrong with being wrong, yet you strike me as a person who doesn't like it.