Theory of knowledge

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1. mrmyersSep 2017
   Modeling the world generally (as in, why mathematics works and can apply to the real world):

     =Bertrand Russell=
     * An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
     * A Theory of Knowledge
     * Logic and Knowledge
     =W.V. Quine=
     * Word and Object
     * Mathematical Logic
     =Norbert Weiner=
     * Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
     =Smullyan=
     * Diagonalization and Self Reference
   

   Squishy Human Things:

     Thomas Kuhn      - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
     Norbert Weiner   - The Human Use of Human-Beings
     Bertrand Russell - A History of Western Philosophy
     Karl Popper      - The Open Society and Its Enemies
     Daniel Dennet    - Consciousness Explained
     E. Abbot Abbot   - Flatland

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2. steppiAug 2026
   Wittgenstein didn't find logical flaws in the Principia and deeply admired it. He found flaws in Russell's follow up work on Epistemology, "The Theory of Knowledge."
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