Leiter's poll has Wittgenstein beating Frege. I'm disappointed that Peirce didn't get a higher ranking, and astonished the Nietzsche did.
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From Tor yesterday (and I translate):
A short while ago I sat down in the subway beside a sixtyish lady, opened my backpack and got out a book titled From Frege to Gödel. A conversation ensued.
"Oh my, that's a thick book! Is it maths?"
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I voted for Peirce, but before he switched to condorcet system. Should have gone again and voted and voted and voted.
That would have been the pragmatistic solution, yes.
Husserl got #17. w00t!!
When I was in college I studied under Izchak Miller, a Husserl scholar.
http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Izchak_Miller
wOOtgenstein? Pfft!
[English soccer fan chant to tune of Guantanamera]
John Stuart Mi-ill!
There's only John Stuart Mill!
John Stuart Mii-ill!
There's only John Stuart Mill!
[/English soccer fan chant to tune of Guantanamera]
I head it as a glazier's chant:
One tonne of mirrors...
We're fitting one tonne of mirrors...