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  1. In the mountains, I love exploring nature and climbing any little hidden corner.

    My academic interests include mathematics (#mathematics) and mathematical logic ( #mathematicallogic #logic), particularly model theory ( #modeltheory), category theory ( #categorytheory), higher-order logic and metalogic ( #metalogic), as well as the philosophy of mathematics and logic ( #philosophyofmathematics #philosophyoflogic), epistemology and ontology of them.

    #introduction

  2. #PhilosophyOfMathematics
    #PhilosophyOfLogic

    occasional sunday finding wrt the applicability of logic, worth noting and worth discussion.

    ... It serves little purpose to argue that logic exists outside mathematics. Whatever,
    outside mathematics, is reducible to pure logic is invariably found, on close inspection, to be nothing but a strictly mathematical scheme (mostly combinatorial), so devised as to apply to some concrete situation; one need
    only think e.g. of the classical syllogism (every man is mortal, Socrates is a man, etc.) to convince oneself of the truth of this statement. Outside mathematics, even in the physical sciences, there is no statement that does not have to be qualified by the knowledge, common to the speaker and to his audience, of some physical or mental context. ...
    [FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS FOR THE WORKING MATHEMATICIAN,
    N. BOURBAKI, JSL 1949]

  3. CW: shameless self promotion 😂

    my current (still draft) paper is about

    object references in purportedly truth value definite sentences

    think there's something good in it ...
    😅 #nontology

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    #AppliedLogic
    #PhilMath
    #PhilSci
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    #PhilosophyOfScience

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