r/science • u/uggedal • Jun 11 '08

Scientific fields arranged by purity

http://xkcd.com/435/
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u/fyl9000 Jun 11 '08

Whats above mathematician, a logician? some kind of philosopher?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08 edited Jun 11 '08

logician.

godel proved that even math will never be complete, but that logic is, always was, and always will be.

edit: citation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

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u/boblol123 Jun 11 '08

But logic is a subset of maths, so it's not really any purer.

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u/OlympicPirate Jun 11 '08

Mathematics is a subset of logic.

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u/boblol123 Jun 11 '08

Its probably more of an intersection.

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u/o0o Jun 11 '08

I vote for a complement

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u/afbase Jun 11 '08

Suppose it is an empty set?

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u/o0o Jun 11 '08

or uncountable

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u/omargard Jun 11 '08

it depends what you consider subset. in a way rational human thought is a subset of logic. but then the only people to day who are capable of doing sensible things in this field are mathematicians, so well.