Boole: invented now logic, possibly accidentally killed by his wife making him sleep in cold wet sheets when he had pneumonia
Frege: invented new logic, late in life was shattered by a discovery of Russell's, wound up a sad angry anti-semite
Cantor: invented new logic, everyone hated him, severe depression, conspiracy theories
Godel: Godel
Lesson: don't study logic
@4464071c Spock: Read Jeremy Bentham in the original and died from radiation, saying "Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". If only he were a philosopher, he'd have died in the core explosion instead, while considering how this is a trolley problem and while we can think about it, we can't come to a final conclusion on what actions are moral and which are not.
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