Timeline for How to start learning philosophy and overcome my bias towards mathematics?
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| Jan 24 at 20:04 | comment | added | Kevin | @pie: I find it helpful to remind myself that, if something is true, I want to believe that it is true, and if something is false, I want to believe that it is false, even if that means I have to confront uncomfortable ideas or radically change my thought processes. If somebody disagrees with me, I want to understand why they disagree with me. Even if I was right all along, I'll probably still learn something from the experience. | |
| Jan 24 at 3:10 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | On my own personal journey, I found it cloyingly easy to trust mathematics ability to prove things more than it could actually keep up with. As it turns out, infinities and self-referential systems are more nuanced than my intuition lead me to beleve. | |
| Jan 24 at 1:29 | history | answered | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |