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Someday I will be dead, and maybe you will want to know about the media I consumed or wanted to consume. Furthermore, while I am still living, perhaps you want ideas on gifts you could give me. Well, either way, you've come to the right place.
Read Logicomix, old chap, which is basically an intellectual comic-biography of Bertrand Russell, and therefore a history of early analytic philosophy.
Various quotes, thoughts, things, from the book…
Aristotle: “In order to understand something you must seek its origins.”
All philosophers are “great,” and all are in total disagreement (are mental concepts innate or acquired: ‘innate’ says kant, ‘acquired’ says hume, etc). Russell wanted to build mathematics on top of a logical foundation which was proven to be necessarily true and not open for debate
Euboulides: “My fellow citizens, I am now lying to you.” If lying, he is telling the truth; if telling the truth, he is lying.
Reference to Yeats’ poem: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Godel - Incompleteness Theorem - Arithmetic or any higher order logic can never have every statement be provable - Godel dies of malnutrition while being hospitalized for fear that the hospital staff were trying to poison him
Foundations of math: is the nature of mathematical truth independent of the human mind and can we *know* for sure?
