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Honestly doing a philosophy degree hoping for existentialism it was more like:
"Best I can do is Wittgenstein truth tables and quantifier predicate logic"
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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.
oh ok
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.
but logic is cool :D
Indeed! It just took me a minute to realise that
Try out the French
Let's not put Descartes before the horse