c/robert-anton-wilson
Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.
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More from Alfred North Whitehead…a great mathematician when he wasn't being a man of low moral character. By uttering such sentiments, Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead Another great mathematician rushed into the breach to define proof once and for all and they showed that all…
…floating around in midair after all. Then people started other mathematicians went to work on the principia mathematica where Russell and Whitehead had demonstrated that and they found all sorts of flaws in it things that hadn't been proven yet and further…
…and said: actually mathematics reduces to intuition and he developed a whole school of mathematics in opposition to Russell and Whitehead so we had two schools the intuitionists and the logicians meanwhile other people working in both logic and mathematics…
…they convinced one another and they couldn't convince the REST of the mathematicians, some of whom were still following Russell and Whitehead and saying by god we will reduce it all to logic eventually, and some of whom were following Brouwer and saying…
…Fraser, in which he quotes statements of Einstein's given at different times in which he endows endorses the process view of Whitehead as the correct interpretation of general relativity and in another place he endorses the block universe of Minkowski as the…