What is the relation between the practicality of Base 10 and the necessity of The Law of Identity? — Monist
Can you explain why you gave the example of our counting system? I completely miss the point. — Monist
Instead of 'apple' try 'thing'. Saying "a thing" while pointing at the thing does not explain why the thing identical to the thing. It does not explain the relation between the thing and the thing. x=x does, it simply tells that the thing, is itself. The point is, why? — Monist
Instead of 'apple' try 'thing'. Saying "a thing" while pointing at the thing does not explain why the thing identical to the thing. It does not explain the relation between the thing and the thing. x=x does, it simply tells that the thing, is itself. The point is, why? — Monist
I know that, proving 1+1=2 is hard
— Monist
Well, no, it isn't.
— alcontali
Well, it was much harder for Russell and Whitehead, PA did not satisfy me for many reasons. — Monist
I swore an oath to uphold a Wittgensteinian view regarding philosophy
— Per Chance
Which view is that? I'm curious. — softwhere
Thus we now meet the view very usually taken of the history of Philosophy which ascribes to it the narration of a number of philosophical opinions as they have arisen and manifested themselves in time...This history, considered only as the enumeration of various opinions, thus becomes an idle tale, or, if you will, an erudite investigation...If the history of Philosophy merely represented various opinions in array, whether they be of God or of natural and spiritual things existent, it would be a most superfluous and tiresome science...
— who
Later in the text, after being told that philosophy evolves toward the truth, we find that
the study of the history of Philosophy is the study of Philosophy itself, for, indeed, it can be nothing else.
— who
excluding those that write also psychoanalysis and hegelese — softwhere
If you successfully made sense of the quotes above, you already know Hegelese. — softwhere
I don’t have ADHD and I don’t take anything anyone says too seriously - philosopher or otherwise (to be honest I’m inclined to pay less attention to most philosophers, yet find philosophies interesting play things) — I like sushi