Understanding Nick Land: askphilosophy

Nick #Land came up in a particular academic culture, that of “continental philosophy” in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. Britain was then as it is now dominated by analytic philosophy: the tradition beginning (in disparate ways) with #Frege, Russell, Moore, the Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein, and so on. I won’t go into the details of that history, but the upshot is that by the time that Land was making his name so-called “Continental Philosophy”, which focused on European philosophers from whom the analytic tradition sharply diverged decades earlier, was sharply maligned in British academic philosophical culture to the extent that controversies around (for example) the award to Jacques Derrida of an honorary degree from Cambridge reached the newspapers.

“Continental Philosophy” doesn’t just mean “any philosopher from Europe”, but in anglophone philosophy departments was a label used for a particular subset of those European and particularly French philosophers who it was perceived had quite radical takes on philosophy and life, such as the aforementioned Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze.

It also the first three axioms of explains #Frege's logical calculus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege%27s_propositional_calculus).

I. The first axiom, 𝐴→(𝐵→𝐴), means that if a statement 𝐴 is true, it is also true under an assumption 𝐵. One can therefore “move” statements under an assumption.

II. The complex second axiom, (𝐴→(𝐵→𝐶))→((𝐴→𝐵)→(𝐴→𝐶)), means that logical conclusions work under an assumption the same way as outside: If 𝐵→𝐶 and 𝐵 are true under assumption 𝐴, then 𝐶 is true under 𝐴.

-->

@Neurograce
Yesterday, I was meditating on the technical difference between #Sinn and #Bedeutung, introduced by #Frege in a famous article. And then I suddenly remembered the comment made by a French linguist A about another French linguist B in front of #Linguistics students: «Il (=B) utilise #sens là où j'utiliserais #signification et vice-versa » (dixit A).
I was one of those students and was puzzled, but these things always happen. C'est la vie.

@ereliuer_eteer

@philosophy
@philosophie
#philosophy

It was #Kant suggesting that, where the #mathematician starts, #philosopher 's work is already done [Über die Deutlichkeit der Grundsätze... §1...]

Of course in a formal system, say #FOL, #identity is simply the strictest equivalence relation, the unit classes of the domain being its equivalence classes. And yes, this is really elementary stuff, high school level, if you like. And no, that's not, why #philosophers at least since #Leibniz (and in a sense since #Parmenides), and more recently #Frege made a case for it.

Typically math philosophical issues with identity from my point of view do include the question of indiscernibles, the sense of an identity statement wrt. redundance, the relation status of identity, ... open list

Here are uses I can in fact imagine...
1. Special issues on a particular topic
2. Records of proceedings at conferences
3. Narrowly focused journals, the journal of Feminist Epistemology, The journal of the Particularistic Society, The Frege Fandom

3 is an edge case for me. Why not just file your musings under #Frege for example?

Da wird der Herr #Frege auch schon 60. Herzlichen Glückunsch #campino
Leider habe ich die im #RatingerHof in den 80ern verpasst.