You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

pragmatist comments on Help Reform A Philosophy Curriculum - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: JonathanLivengood 08 December 2012 10:45PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (24)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: pragmatist 22 December 2012 06:35:54AM 1 point [-]

Typically, symbolic logic classes focus on reasoning with formal systems and mathematical logic classes focus more on reasoning about formal systems. So in a symbolic logic class you would mainly learn how to do proofs while in a mathematical logic class you would learn about things like Godel's theorems. Maybe "mathematical logic" is a bit of a misnomer, but it is the traditional title of these classes.