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minus-squaresteeznson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-215 hours agoHonestly doing a philosophy degree hoping for existentialism it was more like: “Best I can do is Wittgenstein truth tables and quantifier predicate logic”
minus-squaresteeznson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·15 hours agoIt depends where you study but if you end up at an institution which follows the analytic tradition then many of your classes will be more like discrete mathematics than a typical humanities degree.
minus-squareNomecks@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 hours agoLet’s not put Descartes before the horse
Honestly doing a philosophy degree hoping for existentialism it was more like:
“Best I can do is Wittgenstein truth tables and quantifier predicate logic”
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It depends where you study but if you end up at an institution which follows the analytic tradition then many of your classes will be more like discrete mathematics than a typical humanities degree.
Try out the French
Let’s not put Descartes before the horse