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Re:What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? by waqf on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:36PM (#15000128)
How do you know it doesn't just draw out a capacity to think that you already have, and that you could equally well have drawn out by studying or working at something else?
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Re:What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? by pmoriarty on Saturday August 12, 2017 @06:33PM (#15000415)
Maybe you could, but that still doesn't make philosophy useless.
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