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He would have also been a Nazi

As someone whose interest in philosophy is largely on the analytic side, I've noticed that it has a lot more in common with mathematics or more theoretical areas of science than other fields in the humanities. For one thing, both analytic phil and math have close ties to formal logic, and many great analytic philosophers are/were great logicians (or even mathematicians or computer scientists). I've even started teaching myself certain areas of higher level math like set theory and category theory because I think it will be useful for my work. Furthermore, I find that STEM majors are much more sympathetic to (and able to follow) the ideas I talk about. On the other hand, my university's philosophy club is nothing but English majors who only want to talk about existentialism or anarcho-communism (that is, when they aren't bragging about being gay like it constitutes membership in an exclusive club or something). They struggle to follow basic concepts (even the philosophy majors) which my physics major friends easily grasp. I don't even think they can read formal logic.

Best books about mathematical Logic? I’m particularly interested in learning natural deduction, many-worlds semantics and modal logic. Nothing too fancy.

>founder of analytic philosophy
>responsible for the linguistic shift
>helped provide the foundations for modern logic and mathematics
>never memed on /lit/
Why?

>A third realm must be recognized. Anything belonging to this realm has it in common with ideas that it cannot be perceived by the senses, but has it in common with things that it does not need an owner so as to belong to the contents of his consciousness. Thus for example the thought we have expressed in the Pythagorean theorem is timelessly true, true independently of whether anyone takes it to be true. It needs no owner. It is not true only from the time when it is discovered; just as a planet, even before anyone saw it, was in interaction with other planets.

So Frege is basically a Platonist?

Analytic Philosophy Reading Guide?

I think I made a bad mistake thinking it's all logic and math and sticking to Wittgenstein and Russell.

What the fuck was his problem?

You start with Frege (On Sense and Reference), and then Russell (On Denoting) and then you read Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations) and then you stop with this nonsense.

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That has to be Gottlob Frege. He wanted me to turn into a calculator but I refused. But then my philosophy teacher locked me up with him throwing identity statements at me which I could not resist. He fried my brain and now I'm in the third realm posting on /lit/.

FREGE RUINED MY LIFE