“Is there a substratum on which mathematics rests? Is logic the foundation of mathematics? In my view mathematical logic is simply part of mathematics. Russell’s calculus is not fundamental; it is just another calculus. There is nothing wrong with a science before the foundations are laid.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures: 1932-1935
Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
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Utopian fiction is implicitly anti-utopian; things regularly go awry in an ideal society
