@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing I remember finding this essay quite irritating.
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@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…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing “… but you are probably in a slight better position than me to have an opinion!”1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing The second half of the paragraph reeks of 'but Odin isn't real, therefore Jesus is lord'.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Have you heard other mathematicians talking about “enlightenment”? (I haven’t, but I was never a pro.)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing “Lichtung” translates as “enlightenment,” more-or-less, but is a technical term in Heidegger’s _Being and Time_,2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Not "enlightment", which has newagey connotations. "Enlightening", yes. More to the point...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing "mathematical maturity", "lore", "toolbox" are all common concepts that overlap it significantly.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Rota's take just seems really strawmanny to me.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing There's a (modal) distaste for talking about the Big Issues for their own sake, maybe Grothendieck fallout.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing Well, I attribute this distaste to the foundational crisis and Hilbert’s attempt to side-step it…
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