Academian comments on Compartmentalization as a passive phenomenon - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 26 March 2010 01:51PM

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Comment author: Academian 26 March 2010 08:52:20PM 2 points [-]

One of the reasons I'm in favor of axiomatization in mathematics is that it prevents compartmentalization and maintains a language (set-theory) for cross-domain connections. It doesn't have to be about completeness.

So yeah, thumbs up for foundations-encourage-connections... they are connections :)

Comment author: wnoise 26 March 2010 08:58:09PM 3 points [-]

I basically agree, but I'd advocate category theory as a much better base language than set theory.