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Wittgenstein was primarily interested in the linguistic applications of logic. IMO, he wasn't on the same level as Whitehead, Russell, or Curry; let alone Hilbe
by dvt 11y ago
Wittgenstein was primarily interested in the linguistic applications of logic. IMO, he wasn't on the same level as Whitehead, Russell, or Curry; let alone Hilbert, Gödel, and Zermelo.
And maybe it's just my experience, but Wittgenstein was always shoved down our throats in my undergraduate and graduate classes, whereas people may have never even heard of Jan Łukasiewicz or Stephen Kleene.
- tikhonj 11y agoAh, different communities with different goals. In CS, I've run into Kleene a lot and Wittgenstein never. (Although I'm sure people have heard of him!)