On 7/11/2013 1:07 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be <mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> wrote:>> Yes, word games and arguing over what arbitrary meaning a sequence of ASCII characters should have is what passes for philosophy these days. Meanwhile REAL philosophers have discovered that there is more than one type of infinity, > Cantor was a mathematician.Yes. Some say that philosophy hasn't found anything new and interesting in a thousand years but that is untrue, it's just that philosophers haven't found anything new or interesting in a thousand years.> Yes, he was quite interested in theology True, the poor man went completely insane and died in a looney bin.
Newton was also very interested in theology and wrote more on that subject than on the behavior of matter. And if he had only written the former nobody would even know his name today.
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