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by nooneelse
4613 days ago
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"Leibniz (mathematician)"... Leibniz was top notch in many, many things. Philosophy, math, linguist, lawyer, diplomat, engineer, psychology and sociology... lots of things. He was as particularly bad way to start your list which is supposed to support an argument that it was mathematicians who developed formal logic, since he shatters entirely the distinction you are trying to draw upon. |
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I think you have misunderstood my argument, which was not that formal logic was developed only by mathematicians with no philosophers involved (that would be nuts) but that saying it was done by philosophers as opposed to anyone else is quite wrong. And that argument would go through just the same even if we classified Leibniz exclusively as a philosopher (which would be just as wrong as classifying him exclusively as a mathematician; my apologies, by the way, for being sloppy about that).
I have to admit I can't imagine how what I wrote turned (on its way into your mind) into an attempt to draw a sharp dichotomous distinction between mathematicians and philosophers, but evidently it did and I'm sorry that I evidently wasn't clear enough. Yes, people can be both mathematicians and philosophers, or both scientists and philosophers, or all three; yes, the boundaries are fuzzy sometimes; it was no part of my intention to imply otherwise.