Python for philosophers

rusi rustompmody at gmail.com
Thu May 16 01:08:31 EDT 2013


On May 16, 6:17 am, Tim Daneliuk <tun... at tundraware.com> wrote:
> On 05/15/2013 08:01 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> > On 5/11/2013 4:03 PM, Citizen Kant wrote:
> >> Don't get me wrong. I can see the big picture and the amazing things that programmers write on Python, it's just that my question points to the lowest level of it's existence.
>
> > Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.  Python is a tool, it does what you tell it.  To make an analogy, or maybe to clarify your philosophical view of the world, consider a hammer.  What is the "lowest level of its existence"?
>
> > --Ned.
>
> All You People are making this way too hard.  To understand how
> questions like the OPs ought be resolved, please read:
>
>    http://pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html

Ha Ha! Very funny!
Also a serious reminder of what philosophy tends to become.
[Robert Pirsig wrote about the diff between philosophy and
philosophology]

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