Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

Re:Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) by kwhitefoot on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:23PM (#40089541)

I'm pretty sure I was introduced to the concepts of proof by contradiction and by induction in the final year or two of high school, but that was fifty years ago in England.

Perhaps finding it confusing is a recent development.

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Re:Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) by spacechild1 on Friday April 19, 2024 @04:08PM (#40091418)

Me too, 20 years ago in Austria.

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Re:Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) by strongbond on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:42PM (#40089801)

Me too, fifty years ago in Wales

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Re:Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) by rsktaker on Friday April 19, 2024 @05:28PM (#40092109)

Me too, 3 months ago in California.

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Re:Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) by tehnub on Friday April 19, 2024 @08:07PM (#40093225)

What, we're all just assuming the law of the excluded middle now?

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Re:Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) by lanstin on Saturday April 20, 2024 @04:08AM (#40095684)

I don’t really believe this stuff, but it is interesting project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...

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