I have been thinking about continuity from my study of Goedel, and suspect logicism must be wrong. I got to thinking about some of what I read recently in Naming Infinity. I got 4 of Poincare’s books for the Kindle last night (very low price) and looked at Brouwer’s (they… Continue reading
I’ve revised my study plan. See my reading. I’ve postponed (at least) the most difficult items. I was finding them too difficult. Logic will be a lower priority. My new years resolution was to try to sleep more. I have been. It seems to take me longer to wake up… Continue reading
I’m reading Perter Singer’s Practical Ethics. He makes a strong connection (which I do not accept) between ethics and pleasure vs. suffering. Thus I am (so far) unconvinced by his arguments.
I heard someone on the radio a few days ago say that you should focus your attention on one thing at a time. I thought first of my differential equation project. I have made some progress on it, but I am having difficulties, and I cannot do much beyond the… Continue reading
I’m reading Rawl’s A Theory of Justice. It along with Hare’s The Language of Morals and Freedom and Reason has convinced me a correct account of subjunctive conditionals is needed for a correct theory of ethics. (And I think this requires a correct account of modal logic.)
If we assume there are a countable number of signs, and any sentence contains a finite number of signs, then there must be an uncountable number of truths of mathematics that cannot be represented, let alone be proved. This is because there are an uncountable number of real numbers. It… Continue reading
It’s on language and perception. It will go on my web pages when finished.
For my other studies see my studies
I am enjoying this book (a criticism of linguistic philosophy) very much. I wish I read it years ago.