11 Jun
2015
11 Jun
'15
4:23 p.m.
A couple of weeks ago, in a gathering of mathematicians throwing out candidate definitions of mathematics, I half-seriously ventured the opinion that mathematics is the subset of philosophy consisting of those philosophical questions that actually have answers, along with the answers to those questions. But I don't think this is original. Whom am I quoting (or paraphrasing) here? Jim Propp