In a message dated 96-05-02 23:34:06 EDT, you write:
>I wonder how many LOers are aware that Whitehead was a fine mathematician
>before he became a philosopher. If he could see today what modelers do
>with mathematics, he would probably go into exponentially-increasing
>oscillation.
Actually, I would say virtually all great philosophers are, by nature if
not practice (and, as you say, many by practice: Whitehead, Pierce,
Aristotle; Boole in his own way was a philosopher; Godel) mathematicians.
For some time IBM tended to hire mathematicians, philosophy graduates, and
music majors as programmers while steadfastly ignoring computer science
graduates.
QED
Perhaps QES rather than QED (Suggested)
Hal Popplewell
GaltJohn22@aol.com
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