hey /sci/
I need some help understanding Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics (if it's even possible for anyone other than Wittgenstein to do so).
I considered posting this in the SQT, but while I am a stupid person, I don't think this is a stupid question.
I've not been able to find much accessible material on the subject and I am woefully uneducated, so I need help from you to translate the technical language into lay terms.
Thanks in advance.
Lamentably autistic faggots of this board hate philosophy. You can find help in /lit/ or /his/.
>>7949917
I actually love philosophy, especially theory of science.
Wittgenstein's is the second most interesting philosophie, because his approach of understanding language is the promising. When you got the key to language you got the key to everything imo
I'm not sure what he told about math, but I'm eager to read.
>>7949928
[Edit] ... most promising
Pasting this from my identical thread on /his/ because it may be relevant:
It might help if I explain why I'm asking. Recently I was introduced to the philosophy of mathematics when a family member asked me if I thought numbers were "real" or not. It seemed like a strange thing to ask and my initial reaction was that it didn't make sense as a question. I can't explain why I feel that way, though, because of the huge gaps in my knowledge. The only way I could try to describe what I felt was by saying something like "2 + 2 = 4 doesn't describe a relationship between actual objects, but it's more like a rule".
Not being able to understand my own intuition was very frustrating as you can imagine, but I wasn't able to find much by googling because I don't know the terms. All I found was that Wittgenstein believed something vaguely similar, but when I tried to read his work, I couldn't understand it. That brings me here.
>>7949988
read Standford Encyclopedia articles then, e.g.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein-mathematics/
>>7949988
It's all just semantic games that has nothing to do with math. Never go full wildhambgurger.
>>7949891
Long story short: Mathematics is only a refinement and a restatement of axioms, void of meaning or truth for and from the outside world.
