But some, perhaps, if working through them improves your mind for a while. The exercise might do you good, and they certainly are fun to think through.
I'm not too proud to admit that many of those pass my skill. The ones in my link I understand, and one of them I've even developed a philosophical argument to rebut (on the status of the infinite); but the Putnam prize is for those more devout than I in the religion of Pythagoras.
Most of them leave me in the dust too. When I read too much of the news and start to think myself wise by comparison, it helps to look at something that puts me in my place.
This site has some serious brain-stretchers.
ReplyDeleteI'm not too proud to admit that many of those pass my skill. The ones in my link I understand, and one of them I've even developed a philosophical argument to rebut (on the status of the infinite); but the Putnam prize is for those more devout than I in the religion of Pythagoras.
ReplyDeleteMost of them leave me in the dust too.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read too much of the news and start to think myself wise by comparison, it helps to look at something that puts me in my place.