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Incorrect. The philosophers know 'math'. The half-mathematicians that think they can escape philosophy should read.... well anything. Almost all grand-standing
by eruditely 12y ago
Incorrect. The philosophers know 'math'. The half-mathematicians that think they can escape philosophy should read.... well anything. Almost all grand-standing that people have about 'philosophy' is some weird fictional idea that people have in their mind.
Notice how all the recipients of the Lakatos awards and how they are people like Judea Pearl.
Here's a quote from here (Terrence Tao, definitely a mathematician).
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/254a-notes-0-a-review-of-probability-theory/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/254a-notes-0-a-revi...
"probability theory is only “allowed” to study concepts and perform operations which are preserved with respect to extension of the underlying sample space."
Any attempt to side-step these issues leads to people wandering off into the middle of nowhere. Misuse of mathematical tools to areas where is does not apply and all sorts of other major and minor errors that could have been avoided. There is no computer science without Godel, Frege, Russell, and Turing.