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Re:Does Mathematics Need a Philosophy? by AnimalMuppet on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:03PM (#34826100)
> It's especially hilarious when they try to say one of the longest and most fruitful intellectual disciplines in human civilization is "not very useful." Sure, bud.

One of the longest? Sure. One of the most fruitful? I'm not so sure. What are the concrete, usable conclusions of philosophy, and what are the fruit of those conclusions? How do they compare to the fruit of the usable conclusions of Newtonian mechanics or Maxwell's Electrodynamics?

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