i think eventually when i get bored of philosophy i'll go back to doing math just because it's fun
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hell yeah 🧮
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there's a big common component i feel like people don't talk about. if i had to name the skill it would be something like... quickly and efficiently building and rebuilding ontologies?
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ohhhh boy this is confusing me because he doesn't seem to be using "ontological" or "category" in the way i expect e.g. plato.stanford.edu/entries/catego
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not even conclusions just so much as like a mental landscape of what's even happening, what the relevant things are, how the relevant things interact. most of the students in the classes i TA'd for in college didn't really have an ontology of the subject, even in linear algebra
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god i know im fucked when i read "ontology of the subject" as like "oh that's what Hegel was doing" and not like, what you meant lmao (fwiw i saw the same thing when i TA'd a C course)
but yeah -- maintaining a space of connections between mental objects that can be traversed
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