Re: Philosophy, Mathematics, and Science

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on Jul 13, 2009; 5:23am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Analytic-philosophy-Wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia-tp3235494p3248864.html

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

Owen,

Is the program we built together.... MOTH .....  a thing?

Yes.

That's funny, because I have always thought of programs as extremely
refined arguments.

No.  They are algorithms.  And can be built upon.

Can be built upon in theory, but in practice they are with high probability thrown away and rebuilt from scratch.

Because they are complex linguistic objects which, like philosophers' arguments, are often harder to figure out than to do over from first principles.

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