There have been some attempts to do philosophy using math. Philosophical logic is in many ways such an attempt. People have also tried to use Model Theory to solve philosophical questions. Is philosophy headed towards a state where it is primarily mathematical? Is it possible to do real philosophy using math? If it is not possible, why not? If it is possible, what form will it take?
Philosophy and math can definitley coincide.
Math has a definite set of rules.philosophy is not bound by rules, it is free to express itself in a multitude os ways. Also philosophy does not always have a finite answer to a question whereas 2+2 will always =4
Aren’t math and philosophy both bound by logic?
In my opinion, it depends on what ‘makes’ something philosophy.
Do you believe in a specifically philosophical mode of thought that defines it as seperate from other methods of reflection?
Or is it, as Twiffy says, just another method of applying logic to things?
Remember that Logic came from Philosophy first: logos ‘What is uttered’ later “reason”.
Not until half way through the 19th C was it ever a part of Mathematics.
Therefore, Philosophical logic was not, cannot be and is not an attempt to “do philosophy using maths”.
But mathematical logic may be used to prove propositions, and I’m quite sure there’s nothing about any single proposition that could make it strictly philosophical.
At the moment I’m still inclined to say it can- and does -become a philosophical method if we choose to apply it to a working example. Tractatus Philosophicus keeps coming up in my mind as proof of this.
significant parrellels of percent differences baced on different cause and effects. If/then statments to hypothisise the unknown. Cause and effect deffinatly messerable according to percent differences of definitions of the people according to motivations…
Goethe believed that mathematics involves identities it has proposed, none of which answer the real questions about what it means to be a human, what knowing entails, what we were, are and will become. See Walter Kaufmann’s “Discovering the Mind”, Vol. 1.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self-control. All fruits of the spirit.
…Witch preceeds, Right brain/left brain dominate mindsets. Then estrogine/testosterone changed brain sections. Then audio memory or visual memory or the type of memory that makes people lawyers.
…Witch gives us the spirit reflected through matter and perpetuated in a 3D enviorment as; what we do to get attention/ acceptance, motivation, kind and careing/respectful and stern, selfless and values others as much as themselves, understanding and attentive, willing to work it out till the end…
So if people love worldly things as a way to find contenness, they will take these worldly things to levels they weren’t intended for. Usually as an obssesion. Like people who use the way they dress or act to get attention but in an impersonal way,… just because it is easy. Like people who use drugs to change their mood.
Beyond this,… all you have to do is know personal motivations and charecter to know a person.
As far as percentages. How people define anything is by comparison. Witch means if it has more of a percent toward their ideals,… then they will be more apt to liking it. Then percentages like,… couples who pray together are statistically more apt to having a more intamate relationship.
Some sense in that response, Phil, 'though not much. Are you for divine mathematics?