teaching vignettes

[aryanhwy]

Today my advanced seminar switched gears from the formal logic we've been doing since October to philosophy of math. I still want the presentations to be student-given, but it's very different covering a chapter of philosophy, including motivating discussion, than it is covering a bunch of technical definitions, lemmas, proofs, etc., so I wasn't

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[madbaker]

"As a Platonist, I believe in the real existence of bullshit numbers."

[aryanhwy]

Are these the sort of numbers that show up in unbalanced exchequer reports?

[madbaker]

In at least one of the ones I received this month, sadly yes...

[aryanhwy]

Oh dear.

There are reasons why I will NEVER be an SCA exchequer.