<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 Dan TheBookMan </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Let me _stress_ this, since it's being missed: I know only one person who put forth Adler as a serious and important philosopher. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Forget Adler I'm not just talking about him, no philosopher has made a philosophical discovery in centuries, only mathematicians and scientist do that. </font> </div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Gödel was a philosopher, no?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">No. Godel was a mathematician who made profound philosophical discoveries, but philosophers are dilettantes </font></div><font size="4"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">and Godel was about as far from a dilettante as you can get. </div>Bertrand Russell<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> said only 3 people on earth had read his and </div>Whitehead<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">'</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">s </div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">MASSIVE book on the foundations of mathematics cover to cover, and Kurt Godel was the third. </font></div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><font size="4">Now Ludwig Wittgenstein<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>was a philosopher no question about it<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> and many<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">, perhaps most,</div> say <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">he was </div>the greatest <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">philosopher </div>of the 20th century<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">;</div> but what philosophic discovery did he make that was in the same league as Godel's triumph<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> in philosophy</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">? </div>Wittgenstein was a<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>pygmy</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> next to Godel</font>.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>What about Bertrand Russell,</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I thing it was Russell who said that when I got too stupid for mathematics I turned to philosophy and when I got too stupid for philosophy I turned to politics. </font></div><font size="4"> </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div><div style="line-height:normal"><br></div></div></span></div>
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