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Enlightenment (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly doing a philosophy degree hoping for existentialism it was more like:

"Best I can do is Wittgenstein truth tables and quantifier predicate logic"

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Try out the French

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Let's not put Descartes before the horse

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

tell me more

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It depends where you study but if you end up at an institution which follows the analytic tradition then many of your classes will be more like discrete mathematics than a typical humanities degree.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

oh ok

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I remember showing up to my first class thinking it would basically be "stoner studies" and then being given a complicated lecture on formal logic. There was an American student at the front of the class who exclaimed at one point, "Wow! It's just like simple computer programming." I remember thinking I was in the wrong room lol.

Anyway I stuck with it and now I'm a computer programmer.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

but logic is cool :D

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Indeed! It just took me a minute to realise that