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    2 days ago

    I see philosophy as a place to make nonrigorous arguments.

    Wait do you think Bertrand Russell and Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel weren’t making philosophical arguments?

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      1 day ago

      They are clearly mathematical. Starting with definitions and axioms and deriving results from there using mathematical statements.

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        21 hours ago

        They are clearly mathematical.

        Sure. But they’re also philosophical. The categories aren’t mutually exclusive. Basic set theory (which is both mathematics and philosophy).