Joel VanderWerf
11/2/2008 7:56:00 PM
Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:33:43 +0100, toomln <micathom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> As far as I understand him he considers using Ruby to write a
>>> philosophical treatise.
>>
>> I personally would like to see Heidegger's "Sein und Zeit" rewritten
>> in prolog. This could be fun.
>
> May I suggest writing "Critik(*) der reinen Vernunft" by Immanuel Kant
> in Lisp?
>
> (*) No, that is no misspelling. In modern German it reads "Kritik" but
> in the original print it is written with initial "C".
>
> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
Rudolph Carnap's "Der logische Aufbau der Welt" (logical reconstruction
of the world) could be ported to ruby, but it would suffer from the same
flaw as the original:
NoMethodError: undefined method `Rs' for ...
(Rs was the relation of similarity between sense experiences, etc., IIRC.)
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