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It has been striking to me how post-modern philosophy seems to have recentered itself around the questions of language... while «naming things» is considered on
by BlueTemplar 4y ago
It has been striking to me how post-modern philosophy seems to have recentered itself around the questions of language... while «naming things» is considered one of the ~~two~~ three «hardest problems in CS» !
Not directly related to the above, but maybe also relevant : Wolfram's «new science» project centered around computability : https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2017/05/a-new-kind-of-science-a-15-year-view/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2017/05/a-new-kind-of-sc...
- fallingknife 4y agoWords are not a perfect mapping to the reality they describe. Never understood why people spend so much time worrying about it.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoBecause this is such an easy and common trap to fall into (because it's a very economical shortcut ?), we need to be super vigilant about it ? Speaking of which, might the feeling about the existence of numbers come from a similar shortcoming in our neurological structure ? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHNzpX38HkZQrdYn3/philosophy-of-numbers-part-2 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHNzpX38HkZQrdYn3/philosophy... Not directly related, we're now surrounded by computers, which are even dumber (some forms of machine learning and analog computers aside ?) in that they have zero flexibility in treating symbols as something else...
- srcreigh 4y agoI’m not really bickering about names here, just trying to succinctly describe ideas. The irony of the GGP comment is that it claims mathematical ideas are successful ones and philosophical ones aren’t, but that’s not a mathematical claim. So either it’s right and it’s wrong, or it’s wrong.