De-semantification: If you read the word “raven” you usually get a visual image and are primed with all your background knowledge of ravens. Writing ɸ(x) instead of “is a raven” strips that off, and thereby inhibits the “merely reasonable” ways of thinking.
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here on formal logic as a social practice that is a somewhat-contingent product of cultural evolution:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1150166188476862464 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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thx, super interesting thread. you might like: The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action by Schoenhttps://www.amazon.com/Reflective-Practitioner-Professionals-Think-Action/dp/0465068782 …
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Thanks, I do like it very much and it’s been a major influence for me!
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Super interesting thread! When I teach programming, I force people to read and write everything out, to prevent them trying to "think it through" in their heads before their brains are trained to do this properly. So, on one hand, this aligns perfectly with that. 1/2
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On the other hand, after >20 years programming, I can read, write, complie, execute and debug in my head with tremendous accuracy. My brain has gained the unconscious ability to suppress the "cognitive coloring" and interpret as the machine does. 2/3...
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Have you read Brian Rotmans books on the philosophy of mathematics? The views here of paper as a tool instrumental to actually *do* mathematics aligns with his conception of math as a uniquely human imagination machine
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Thanks! I didn’t know about that; looks very interesting!
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amazing
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Please do! It's a whole subfield of cognitive science I've been meaning to open up but which seems to have little scientific investigation so far.
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