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Re:Habits of highly mathematical people by jknoepfler on Saturday July 30, 2016 @10:33PM (#12195468)
Having done graduate work in both computer science and philosophy (and having a healthy respect for both), I agree with this assessment. It's part of what I was trying to articulate. Although I think some of the philosophers (particularly the historians of philosophy) that I've met have been some of the most intelligent, rational, and well-spoken people I've met, I think there's a keen difference between the critical thinking abilities of the computer science undergraduates vs. the philosophy undergraduates that I've seen graduate from a university/college, and I chalk a lot of this up to learning to be wrong very quickly in formal disciplines.

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