Jayson_Virissimo comments on Concepts Don't Work That Way - Less Wrong

57 Post author: lukeprog 28 September 2011 02:01AM

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 18 April 2015 03:12:33AM *  0 points [-]

Are you claiming that math is not a kind of conceptual analysis or just that the conceptual analysis in math is more rigorous (less likely to produce bad results because it relies less on natural language)?

Comment author: dxu 18 April 2015 03:18:08AM *  0 points [-]

The second, as well as observing that as far as the task of describing what philosophers actually do is concerned, labeling math as a member of the category "conceptual analysis" isn't very helpful.