[lbo-talk] Re: No evidence...

[Jon Johanning]

That depends, I guess, on what kind of philosophy you are studying. If 
you're at all interested in 20th-century analytic stuff, it's pretty 
hard to make head or tails of most of it if you haven't studied 
symbolic logic. And most philosophy departments I'm aware of would 
consider you rather under-educated if you didn't know your upside-down 
As from your backward Es. I don't think you could pass their PhD 
qualifying exams.

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 12:23  PM, Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote:


>
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Jon Johanning wrote:
>
>> Of course, formal logic is not necessary for most people to master,
>> since they are not going on to get advanced degrees in philosophy.
>
> In fact, it's not necessary in philosophy (or even very helpful) for
> non-logicians.
>
> -- Luke
>

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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