The Philosophy Discussion Forum

This election could almost be an Ionesco play. It is not the philosophical absurdity of what America has become. It is a pristine example of Absurdism as a definition of the human experience and existence. Remember that the common usage of the word "absurd" is quite different from the scho...

Pure math, in and of itself, is something we have and continue to learn. Numbers, quantities, statistics.... They simply exist every bit as much as a rock exists, as you exist. People say math is a language but it isn't. The symbols we use to describe it, the words, those are language. Math was disc...