Thinking about misconceptions that are annoying: people who think that Plato's Republic was Plato's last word on Politics & not a miserable failure he corrected in the extremely boring compendium of common sense called "The Laws"
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You don't think that there's a more, err, close continuity between Gödel & Turing than Democritus & Newton?
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Sure, but calling Goedel or Turing analytic philosophers is quite a stretch, especially if you are at the same time pedantic and insist Nietzsche was not.
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Where, in your opinion, is the line between analytic philosophy & say, modal logic?
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Neither Turing nor Goedel did modal logic, and it's not a very interesting distinction, but to not dodge the question: if it's based on (uses language and rules of) topology, mathematical logic, or abstract algebra, it's math.
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I see you've snuck the word mathematical before logic. The point isnt that Turing & Gödel were doing modal logic, the point is that the substructure of mathematics is philosophical- & that THIS is the purest form of philosophy.
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I can see why you dislike Nietzsche though, he's denouncing precisely this glorious "pure" past to which we can never return.
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I like Nietzsche, but as a poet.
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& this is also silly considering N's goal was to recreate presocratic philosophy- a goal heidegger took up as well etc
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