California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National

Re:California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National by robot_no_421 on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:35PM (#37744050)

The CMF was designed by people who don't like math and prioritize the "human experience" over physical reality. When you read through the CMF, you begin to see all sorts of hints that their ideology is inspired Continental philosophies such as Marxism, existentialism, and all of the other ways of thinking that find "facts" and "reality" offensive. For example, I lost count of how many times they mentioned the word "authenticity" in the CMF.

Why we should learn math from people who clearly have no respect for facts and reality in the first place is beyond me. Bertrand Russel, one of the founders of set theory, would have outright rejected most of the philosophy that inspired the CMF. And I mean that quite literally - Bertrand was a prominent scholar of analytic philosophy.

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Re:California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National by datadrivenangel on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:34PM (#37745926)

No need to slander the continental philosophers by associating this with them.

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Re:California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National by mrdatawolf on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:39PM (#37745982)

You "lost count" of 0? Because I just downloaded every chapter and searched for "authenticity" it occurred 0 times.

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Re:California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National by Zanni on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:22PM (#37746323)

Try again with "authentic." Several matches in the summary alone. Granted, OP should not have put "authenticity" in quotes.

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Re:California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National by Yodel0914 on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:31PM (#37746396)

Existentialism is hardly anti-reality, and for that matter, neither is Marxism. It kinda sounds like you're just repeating things you've heard without reading the sources.

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