I liked his other books better...
It seems he is gradually groping his way toward philosophy....
It has been a torturous journey, through art history, literature, finance investment banking and trading, sports theory, statistics, psychology, economics, and history.
Enjoyed the quote from Max Black. Amen.
The same sorts of mathematico psychologistic logico linguistic thinking had, of course, infested philosophy too, for decades, by then, especially after WWI.
Kripke came over and did a talk, when I was at Kings, in the 70s. Ugh. American philosophy has long been besotted with the stuff...
At least someone like Ryle, The Concept of Mind, put some of this nonsense into a broader historical perspective and context.
What is logic really? Inference? Whose? A branch of statistics? Why? Mathematics itself? Not really. Then what? Pictorial representation? Grammar? Syntax? Kind of a joke. Intuition? Well...
Enjoyed the quote from Max Black. Amen.
The same sorts of mathematico psychologistic logico linguistic thinking had, of course, infested philosophy too, for decades, by then, especially after WWI.
Kripke came over and did a talk, when I was at Kings, in the 70s. Ugh. American philosophy has long been besotted with the stuff...
At least someone like Ryle, The Concept of Mind, put some of this nonsense into a broader historical perspective and context.
What is logic really? Inference? Whose? A branch of statistics? Why? Mathematics itself? Not really. Then what? Pictorial representation? Grammar? Syntax? Kind of a joke. Intuition? Well...
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