X-Message-Number: 21040 From: Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 17:45:01 EST Subject: comments on philosophy --part1_1ed.cbbdc7.2b6ef96d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A comment on philosophy - which I am a student. It seems that several major philosophers have tried to make philosophy a branch of mathematics. Others have tried to incorporate mathematics into philosophy. In my on humble opinion, I think relying too much on mathematics is where most philosophers (even those of us on this forum) go wrong ( I do think it has some limited uses). There are just some ideas in philosophy that cannot be put into (or be solved by) mathematical formulas. Having said the above disclaimer, I would like to take a shot at disputing the following statement, that I recently saw on Cryonet: "No amount of mathematics can make an x be a y." x = 5 y = 5 therefore, x = y Would this count? David --part1_1ed.cbbdc7.2b6ef96d_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21040