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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To quote my former physics teacher:

If you remove maths from physics you're left with philosophy.

[–] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not qualified enough to approve or contest this statement, but I know for a /phisicistsfact that there was a time when great mathematicians were also great philosophers and they couldn't conceive doing one without the other (Leibnitz or Descartes, among many others). Why I changed and exactly how, I don't know, but I find it interesting.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Philosophy and maths are still linked via formal logic.