orthonormal comments on Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 06 December 2012 04:41:04AM 4 points [-]

Have you taken a math class in formal logic? (The one with models, proofs, soundness and completeness, Gödel's Theorem, etc, not the ersatz philosophy-department one that thinks syllogisms are complicated.) I'd be surprised if you had, and still considered it irrelevant to doing philosophy well.