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@sarahdoingthing Last sentence is the most interesting to me. Given his Heideggerian orientation, I wonder what he thought about this?
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing I remember finding this essay quite irritating.
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing I have mixed feelings about it—some “yes, that’s how it is!” and some “it doesn’t seem that way to me, but…
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing “… but you are probably in a slight better position than me to have an opinion!”
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing The second half of the paragraph reeks of 'but Odin isn't real, therefore Jesus is lord'.
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing Have you heard other mathematicians talking about “enlightenment”? (I haven’t, but I was never a pro.)
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing “Lichtung” translates as “enlightenment,” more-or-less, but is a technical term in Heidegger’s _Being and Time_,
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Not "enlightment", which has newagey connotations. "Enlightening", yes. More to the point...
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing "mathematical maturity", "lore", "toolbox" are all common concepts that overlap it significantly.
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing As a grubby American engineer, I prefer that way of talking to “aletheia,” but Heidegger did have a point…
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