• @steeznson
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    1 month ago

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

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

      • @steeznson
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        91 month ago

        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.

          • @steeznson
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            11 month ago

            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.

              • @steeznson
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                21 month ago

                Indeed! It just took me a minute to realise that

      • Nomecks
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        41 month ago

        Let’s not put Descartes before the horse