I just got an A- in Philosophy

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Asher
What about people who reduce all arguments down to blatant strawmen?

What you think to be blatant strawmen may be not so blatant after all.

[Asher]

Perhaps you could write your PhD thesis for Philosophy on that.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Asher

You've got more of a mathematical background than philosophers, I'd think. Haven't you taken quite a few econ courses?

Well, at least philosophers tend to be familiar with the axiomatic foundations of mathematics.

[Asher]

Not as well as they should, evidently.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Asher
Perhaps you could write your PhD thesis for Philosophy on that.

That's a good idea. If Agathon agrees to be my supervisor.

[The Mad Monk]

Quoting is overrated, so it's too bad Agathon has has you on ignore, so he'll never read it.

[Asher]

[The Mad Monk]

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Yeah, but I didn't need the upper level math (by upper level I mean Pre-Calculus and then Calculus) . Not really anyway.

If you didn't need calculus then you didn't take physics.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by The Vagabond


Well, at least philosophers tend to be familiar with the axiomatic foundations of mathematics.

I'm a physicist/mathematician, and I'm very well acquainted with the axiomatic foundations of every branch of mathematics commonly used by any people other than mathematicians.

Would you like me to list the peano axioms? How about the set-theoretic axioms? Perhaps you'd like to go over the concept of a limit, or a metric space, or a topology, or a group....

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I'm a physicist/mathematician, and I'm very well acquainted with the axiomatic foundations of every branch of mathematics commonly used by any people other than mathematicians.

Would you like me to list the peano axioms? How about the set-theoretic axioms? Perhaps you'd like to go over the concept of a limit, or a metric space, or a topology, or a group....

I have no doubt that you can list them all. But so what? It would be stupid to claim that philosophers know them better than you or physicists/mathematicians in general. What I meant to say is that the axiomatic approach is a subject of study within the framework of philosophy too. In fact, there are certain subtle points that are best discussed precisely within this framework. That's why philosophers tend to be rather clued on this matter.

[Asher]

So bravo for Philosophers knowing a subset of what physicists know?

[The Vagabond]

Philosophers know it from a different angle.

[Asher]

Which angle is that?

[KrazyHorse]

In other words an angle where they don't actually understand from?

I don't get it.