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Care to expand on that? The way I see it, math is a really powerful multiple purpose tool that people just don't use all that frequently in day to day life. P
by alexvoda 4y ago
Care to expand on that?
The way I see it, math is a really powerful multiple purpose tool that people just don't use all that frequently in day to day life.
Philosophy, on the other hand, while intersting from a history of human thought pov, and an inspiration for divergent thinking when having an overview of its evolution, is not actually a field with a strong tether to reality. It is useful as an idea incubator. But whenever a topic starts becoming scientifically riguros it splits and becomes its own field of inquiry.
- MikePlacid 4y ago> an inspiration for divergent thinking In my “living experience” philosophy was used as a tool to enforce the “correct” thinking. It can be easily converted to such a tool, exactly because it has no strong tether to reality. Math is much less susceptible to such a conversion since each statement needs a proof, at least in principle. And I don’t like the tendency to eliminate something just because it’s too hard for somebody. It may be reasonable in some cases, maybe even in this one - but where do we stop?
- alexvoda 4y agoWell that still happens, but instead it's in history classes. But in soviet countries during soviet times we had precisely that kind of "philosophy" classes mandatory. I wonder if that is what they meant? Also, note, I have some doubt that math is too hard for the majority of people. It is simply though very badly and most people develop a hatred for math very early on, subsequently making it a pain during each school year.