paper-machine comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Thomas 03 March 2012 08:04AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 March 2012 09:20:41PM 0 points [-]

We need to clarify what time period we're talking about. I'm not aware of anyone in the generation of Newton/Leibniz and the second generation (e.g., Daniel Bernoulli and Euler) who felt that way, but it's not as if I've read everything these people ever wrote.

The earliest criticism I'm aware of is Berkeley in 1734, but he wasn't a mathematician. As for mathematicians, the earliest I'm aware of is Lagrange in 1797.

Comment author: TimS 04 March 2012 03:55:46AM 0 points [-]

I'm also curious about this history.