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> I have a sneaky suspicion... You have no idea. The more I study this stuff the more I feel that all philosophical questions might be somehow encoded in there

• AnimalMuppet 11y ago
  Sartre said that the great philosophical question is, why is there something instead of nothing? (This does not mean, why is there something in philosophy. Why is there something in the real world? Why does anything physically exist?) If your philosophy doesn't explain the real world, it isn't much of a philosophy. But I don't think set theory can explain that. Two other great philosophical questions are: Where do we humans find meaning? And, what is the basis for morals and ethics? How do we determine what actions are right and wrong? Set theory isn't going to answer those questions at all.
  • mindcrime 11y ago
    Two other great philosophical questions are: Where do we humans find meaning? And, what is the basis for morals and ethics? How do we determine what actions are right and wrong? And Camus said that the one truly interesting philosophical problem is suicide. http://www.camus-society.com/myth-of-sisyphus.html http://www.camus-society.com/myth-of-sisyphus.html Set theory isn't going to answer those questions at all. Indeed.
  • anthony_d 11y ago
    Sorry, but "Where do we humans find meaning?" isn't even a mediocre philosophical question. It's navel gazing by angst ridden teenagers.
  • valera_rozuvan 11y ago
    > Two other great philosophical questions are: Where do we humans find meaning? And, what is the basis for morals and ethics? I think the best question is "What will humans do, when we find meaning to everything?". I hope that never happens.
  • tel 11y ago
    It was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I'd argue that mathematical foundations (maybe not set theory interpreted strictly) does take aim at answers to "why is there something?" and "where do humans find meaning?". Possibly by unifying the questions!
• vezzy-fnord 11y ago
  Only if you're biased towards a realist philosophical view. Though admittedly it makes many feel warm and fuzzy, there's really no evidence for it over positions like intuitionism.
  • tel 11y ago
    I'm not, but I can't see how you cannot study set theory without eventually studying intuitionism.