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Seriously, how intellectually compromised and paranoid do you have to be to ascribe these weird motivations onto the entire field of mathematicians??? They’re
by cannabis_sam 6y ago
Seriously, how intellectually compromised and paranoid do you have to be to ascribe these weird motivations onto the entire field of mathematicians???
They’re not a cabal, quite the opposite, they fight like schoolchildren (look up Leslie Lamport view on natural deduction, especially OR-elimination)
The conflict between philosophy and mathematics that you describe, is generally understood as the debate around logical positivism, the adoption of which necessitates an extremely naive philosophy of scientific knowledge.
You can even throw Gödel/Turing into this, which really finalizes any dumb debate about formalizing philosophy as math/logic, but at no point is there any proof of a conspiracy to keep mathematics off-limit for “normal people”.
Like, it’s literally published in journals, and it is easily followed, as long as you actually spend the time to understand the fundamentals it’s built on.