6 Jul
2015
6 Jul
'15
11:53 a.m.
On Monday, July 6, 2015, Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote: I still like mine better than everybody else's: it is the study of
thinking & how to be a better thinker.
Graduate students in the humanities are learning how to think more intelligently in their chosen specialties. The same goes for lawyers. But they're not doing mathematics. (I omit medicine and engineering and the sciences, since they have significant overlap with mathematics: some of the thinking skills one acquires in these fields are mathematical, and others aren't.) Jim Propp