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		temporarely on April 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional? "I think we humans simply find following a series of steps easier than reasoning in an abstract mathematical sense" + to perform tasks. So, you are right regarding the mindset of human philosophers, but that is not the sort of problems OP's students were tasked with solving.

epgui on April 13, 2024 [–]

I wasn't thinking about philosophers in particular, but rather about mathematicians and scientists.

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