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Re:The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors by applicative on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:36PM (#48824203)
The objections that one treatise makes to another will typically be of type violation, category mistake, nonsense - which is typical of compilers. I don't need to tell you which discipline invented the ideas of type and type error and was even largely organized around them in early and mid- 20th c, even across wildly different theoretical views.
Re:The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors by kazinator on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:55AM (#48828915)
Mathematics.
Re:The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors by applicative on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:20AM (#48847436)
Type theory was invented by Bertrand Russell. He did have undergraduate math training. All of 20th c anglo american philosophy arises from this paper.
Re:The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors by dwaltrip on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @01:25PM (#48834665)
Warning: Irony :)

Category error: Theory of compiler != compiler