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9808 | Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou] |
Full Idea: Philosophy's role consists in informing mathematics of its own speculative grandeur. | |
From: Alain Badiou (Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little [2004], p.11) | |
A reaction: Revealing the grandeur of something sounds more like a rhetorical than a rational exercise. How would you reveal the grandeur of a sunset to someone? |
12274 | Begin examination with basics, and subdivide till you can go no further [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: The examination must be carried on and begin from the primary classes and then go on step by step until further division is impossible. | |
From: Aristotle (Topics [c.331 BCE], 109b17) | |
A reaction: This is a good slogan for the analytic approach to thought. I take Aristotle (or possibly Socrates) to be the father of analysis, not Frege (though see Idea 9840). (He may be thinking of the tableau method of proof). |