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Re:Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate by scoofy on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:55PM (#35659984)
This is a pretty myopic view of how scientific discoveries happen. This is a good time to remind people that truth-tables were first created by Wittgenstein, who wrote some pretty obscure and borderline indecipherable books on natural language, placed well inside the walls of the humanities departments.

Philosophy of Language would have been dismissed by most making these types of arguments in the late 1800's, but it is one of the fields that was necessary and instrumental in the development of the of the universal Turing machine.

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Re:Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate by haweemwho on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:55PM (#35660756)
> but it is one of the fields that was necessary and instrumental in the development of the of the universal Turing machine.

You'd be shocked how many people in the software industry regard Turing machines as some esoteric construct that is of no value and wasn't necessary for the invention of the iPhone or Javascript.

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