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My infuriated mind can barely grasp the retardedness of c. 20th century logicians and philosophers of math. I’m this-close to endorsing professional stranglers for hire. A time travel box for them would be even better. Sigh.
Philosophical detection is a lot easier than I thought it was. It’s all just sitting there, right in front of you (or on wikipedia) - you just have to know what the words mean. I mean, mean. Where they come from, what they entail. And you can even do this with a rough understanding of concepts. Take a working hypothesis, generate a prediction, then go look for it. "Godel’s incompleteness theorems smack of utter BS - the kind of BS that usually comes from very bad starting points. Of Kant and Plato and the like. I wonder if Kant had a strong influence on him." Yep. Counter-prediction? "Godel was strongly influenced by clear-headed thinkers of the past, give or take, like Aristotle and Bacon and maybe Locke, and maybe even had a childhood hero of Newton or the like." Negatory.
More rants later. I have real work to do.
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