Outer Limits of Reason. Chapter 1 --- Introduction

Noson S. Yanofsky. Brooklyn College CISC 1002. Topics covered: limits of reason, paradoxes, contradictions, jokes and puns.

[Spiros]

Vsause said your book is amazing, so I will watch your lectures

[wanderlazaro]

Thanks professor Yanofsky! just bought your book and these classes on line help quite a bit. Greetings from Brazil !

[HermeticAscetic]

Currently reading this book. On the first chapter. Already love it. Love how stratifying language is one of the ways of resolving liar paradox!

[FatihKarakurt]

fastest commercial planes though, around 30 years ago!

[Cacuofa]

Excuse my ignorance but some things I don´t get and others I disagree. You are giving two statements about two different things. While math and science is objective, if you are holding a pencil and me too, there are 2 pencils, theres no doubt about it. If a guy blinded since birth asked what we where doing, though he has never actuallly seen one, he knows what a pencil is and can touch it because is something tangebile. If now the blind man asks what color the pencil is and you say yellow, how do you describe the color yellow to somebody who has never seen before? if we had 3 cups and we had to point to the green now we would all paint to the same one, but what we could all have a different color for the color we´ve seen all our life. Why van gogth didn't sell any painting, and his fame appeared almost 30 years after dead. What happened? the painting is still the same, but now someone who say his critic its what counts and then thee biggest scam ever. take a jackson pollock painting, people analyzing random splashes trying to give them some sortof meaning where there is not. Any young kid who did that in school would have had a bad grade, but create marketing and fashion around them and the rest of people will say the same things because nobody likes to stand out saying something opposite. the math problem is wrong because you are dividing by 0 which you cant, also if we say we assume a = b we could assume 1 = 2 and that's is the same example, is 2

[Sasha-Sabelnikov]

Came here because of vsause. I’m disappointed. I’m only at 30-minutes deep and so many bad premises have already been introduced! It is so ironically that Noson mentioned bad premises power while discussing Russel. I understand that Noson tried to tide everything up to be understandable-ish for average listeners, however most of these premises will be obstacles on their further way down the road. It is not good teaching practice unless you are very constrained and in need of having fast teaching results in a life/death setting.

[hippityhopotus]

Proving transgenderism is a contradiction in the first chapter, love it.

[tipofthespear]

Maybe theres a mistake from your part seeing the Bible just as ancient history and not about how God is