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Unfortunately much of philosophy is very easily ignored. The philosopher will get very defensive about this, as perhaps they should, since their work was the "initial" work leading to the development of a rigorous field (physics, mathematics, psychology, etc). However, much of philosophy is intentionally vague because the philosopher is grasping at straws, is speculating.

Philosophy is a discipline whose success is desperately trying to reclassify itself from its own subject. In that regard, when you say that mathematicians do not care and cannot argue philosophy, you are merely being defensive. There is nothing in the philosophy of math that a Mathematician could not grapple with at your level of expertise or better in a simple conversation with no preparation. The issue is that what you have to say is not rigorous, it is not grounded in anything, it is vague. This is your problem, not the mathematicians.




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