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Re:Does Mathematics Need a Philosophy? by kilgnad on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:23PM (#34824324)
Epistemology is just another category error in a category error. What is the study of knowledge? It's the study of everything on the face of the earth, just like philosophy.
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Re:Does Mathematics Need a Philosophy? by kriops on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:31AM (#34835059)
It's not a cateogry error. In fact you need a somewhat sophisticated epistemology for "category error" to even make sense in the first place.

The logical prerequisite for a category error can't simultaneously be a category error without contradicting itself.

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