Subject: Re: About stat system..
From: McDuff (mcduff@iname.com)
Date: Wed Nov 24 1999 - 13:26:46 EET
>> Meep. Mathematical intelligence is totally separated from willpower, >> perception and intuition, in fact it is often quite the opposite. I >> haven't met, and do not know of, a single able philosopher or religious >> fanatic who was mathematically talented. > >Pythagoras for one there are numerouse others if you want me to research >it. This has nothing to do with the stat system but I thought i would >point it out. > >Mathimatics and phylosophy where commenly studied together and >considered the same thing in less modern times. Aristotle Plato and >Socrates was very mathimaticaly inclined. Thomas Jefferson the inventor >of modern democracy and its phylosopy was an apt architect. The list >goes on and on. I'm going to to Durham University for my degree, to study Applied Maths and Philosophy. Maths is considered the purest form of philosophy. I'm also a religious fanatic. So, know you know one personally Yorkaturr! I'm actually quite good at both as well! It all depends on perception - most "pure" mathematicians are brilliant at conceptualising abstract forms, but cannot express themselves without using "theta is equal to the integral of (xe^x-y^y)^1/2" type language which very few people understand. Feynman is a brilliant quantum physicist, mainly because he can see how the world works in a different way to everyone else - surely a reasonable definition of philosophy? What a subject for my first post back! McDuff
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