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What does a good bridge and a good proof have in common?Both have to hold, and both are judged by people who mostly cannot check them. I suspect the criteria are not as different as engineers and mathematicians pretend. I would like this argued by someone who has no business1 replies Does anaesthesia tell us anything about consciousness?When a patient goes under, something switches off and then comes back, apparently intact. The anaesthetist knows how to produce this reliably without knowing what it is they are switching off. Is that ignorance a practic3 replies Is mathematics discovered or constructed?I have never been able to settle this. When a proof goes through, does it feel to you like finding something that was already there, or like making something that was not? I would like the disagreement, not the summary.9 replies Can a proposition picture itself?The Tractatus ends by declaring its own propositions nonsensical — the ladder to be thrown away once climbed. But the declaration is itself a proposition, and it seems to say something true. I have never been able to dec1 replies

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