38 ways thinking can go disastrously wrong, about which we know nearly nothing. http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html … See list near end; but all worthwhile
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@Meaningness Seems like there is a common thread to a lot of these. Something in the neighbourhood of "reification"2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness Or, trusting concepts to refer unproblematically?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@simplic10 Many do seem to be category errors, and that’s a recognized thing;1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@simplic10 Stove probably wants a finer-grained account of how you’d come to make specific sorts of category errors.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness take "'3 is the fifth root of 243' is a tautology". You'd say this if you thought that all properties of 3 were baked into defn1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@simplic10 Yes… it’s also a specific position in the philosophy of mathematics (viz, “logicism”).
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@Meaningness "3 is the number that, among other things [ ], appears on my license plate in the 2nd position"0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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