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>its embedded in the very logic and structure of existence
OUR existence. Math, like any subject, is an interpretation of how the world works through the eyes of humanity.
Take gravity: There are a million and one different thing that act on an object when it falls, but we simplify it with mass and the gravity of the earth. Even though we know the sun, how fast the earth travels, the other planets in the solar system, the moon, etc. are all acting upon this object. And this simplification doesn't necessarily mean that is how gravity works. I am personally not against science or math, I think they're great. But shit like this makes me question if we actually know what we're doing.

By God I finally know why one coat equals 20 yards of fucking linen

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I got real bored with this about 650 pages in, just lost any desire to read another chapter about suppose you pay a guy 6 shillings for 12 hours of work, blah blah blah. The thesis is that all business profit is the surplus value taken from the worker in an act of exploitation by the capitalist. I get it. I could have gotten it in the first 100 pages

You know, if the Socialists and Communists just spent time implementing their demands bit by bit instead of by revolution, you'd probably see more socialist nations. Marx is actually a pretty smart guy, shame the followers aren't as bright as he is.

The working class consists mostly of retards. Social and economic prosperity is strongly correlated with IQ.
The fact there are some outliers doesn't disprove this trend.

Cool cover art.

I actually read some of History of Western Philosophy today. Mainly Pythagoras and Sparta sections.

What a presumptuous ass undertaking

Oh no, a philosopher writing about philosophy. Unthinkable!

Nothing, I'm not reading anything, much like the rest of Yea Forums.

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Decent so far. Any other good war history books in this vein, with focus on primary sources?

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Obviously Thucydides.

FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS

This book is huge. Is it full of knowledge and facts, but some half ass long pages

The only redeemable thing about Russel's history of western philosophy is that he did a poor enough job of it to inspire Copleston to write his series.

Math does not reliably map onto nature, this has been a known problem for a long time. See Gödel's incompleteness theorems

IQ isn't real

OK Dindu

>atheist bias le bad!
>christian bias le good!

Was told this was a feel good book, kinda lame

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>The working class consists mostly of retards
that's a relatively recent phenomena following decades of increases in social mobility leading up until the 90's. The dregs were left behind

*late 90's

Short but enjoyable

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for me its Kenny. Fuck your cobblestone bullshit

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I listened to this like 5 times within a week or something when starting to getting into philosophy. Shits great. Just a tid angloid though.

Currently I´m reading Kants Critique of pure reason. Only finished the forewords though so I don´t really know what I´m in for.

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>The only redeemable thing
It has its issues, sure, especially seeing how his own theories have aged, and his insistence on the science/religion dichotomy/philosophy as the no man's land between, but it's got a lot of value in it otherwise.

Write a better one then nigger.

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the "top minds" think that dark matter exists, so that should tell you something.

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IQ maybe the only thing in social and psychological science today that is actually real. Throw the rest of it in the trash, rely solely on IQ, and you would see improvements in social structure and mental health.

I hope that that's not your first book on the history of philosophy, since its highly inaccurate, biased, and also straight-up bad

>for me its Tranny
user....

>since its highly inaccurate, biased, and also straight-up bad
They all are.

still reading through the gallic wars, it's just gauls getting BTFO'd. I like it

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chud detected

All the chads are reading this one

Good book desu.
>Any other good war history books in this vein, with focus on primary sources?
Read Xenophon's Persian Expedition and Caesar's Conquest of Gaul

care to elaborate?

What do you recommend then?

As if reading about what someone thinks wasnt bad enough, you want me to read about what someone thinks about someone writting what he thinks and then tell you what i think?

Just read this. It's a fun read but found myself wanting a deeper analysis than what was offered. I guess that comes with the territory with pop-business books

Nietzsche and Hume

Dude, I'm not reading fucking Hegel.

... I'm probably referring to the scope of the work rather than the genre, you inimitable genius. Insane that this has to be clarified for you. People are so fucking stupid.

rent free

Mathematics as a language is man made but the rules of mathematics are discovered, not invented. Sciences as languages can only describe the universe with limited precision since we have limited vocabulary (concepts we understand) and limited grammar (understanding of how these concepts interact with each other). All we can ever do is improve on that level of precision while never reaching infinity I guess.

>discovered, not invented
Where did we find these equations? The bottom of the sea floor?

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>See Gödel's incompleteness theorems
You just outed yourself as a pseud.

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Thomas Carlyle

> Muh empiricism.
Complete and utter retard. Once you have rules, all else follows.

>Once you have rules
Rules not found in nature. Rules created by man.

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