An inquiry into meaning and truth
the William James lectures for 1940 delivered at Harvard University
by Bertrand Russell · first published 1940
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Modeling the world generally (as in, why mathematics works and can apply to the real world): =Bertrand Russell= * An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth * A Theory of Knowledge * Logic and Knowledge =W.V. Quine= * Word and Object * Mathematical Logic =Norbert Weiner= * Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine…
on “Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?” ↗…"The former and the latter are not _formally_ the same thing" ??? Here's a fun fact for you, you might enjoy this. I picked up a copy of a 1943, second edition, hardback copy of Bertrand Russell's An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth. (In an antiquarian bookstore for €25, as one does... the colophon even states BOOK PRODUCTION WAR ECONOMY STANDARD) Anyway, chapter XX is titled "The Law of The Excluded Middle" and in it Russell states,…
on “Relation Between Type Theory, Category Theory and Logic” ↗