[ysofunny]

I'm running a contest in my head: "which academic discipline can transfer more information with less text"

so far it's a close race between philosophers and mathematicians. I'll take your comment as a vote in favor of mathematicians

[chatmasta]

I don't think philosophers should even be in the running for this title. They write way too many words when few do trick.

[ysofunny]

but talking is part of the contest (I should not have said it was about "text"; nonetheless academia still maintains an oral tradition in teaching and thesis defenses)

so while written philosophy is verbose, philosophers talking can "transfer" a lot of "meaning" with short sentence

whereas mathematicians will likely need to talk for a very long time for what they can write down in a short terse equation

[thfuran]

Who do the few words trick? Why do the philosophers wait for that before writing their many words?

[sirsinsalot]

Classical musicians. Lots of information with very few symbols nevermind text.