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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday January 25 2018, @05:21PM (1 child)

    by acid andy (1683) on Thursday January 25 2018, @05:21PM (#627760) Homepage Journal

    That's a good point but some branches of philosophy focus solely on abstract concepts too e.g. philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language. I'm sure there's a lot of crossover between mathematics and philosophy. I suppose logic is one of the biggest areas of intersection. You could even make a case that those who first derived the rules of logic were doing philosophy.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday January 26 2018, @02:41AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday January 26 2018, @02:41AM (#628046) Homepage

    I took a 100-level philosophy class 10 years before I took discrete math, and the first third of that discrete math class was the material from that philosophy class. Philosophy has a bad rap for being a bunch of stoners mentally masturbating around paradoxes and opinions, but philosophy also has rules and structure.

    Were the early mathematicians philosphers, or vise-versa?