This post reminded me of this quote from Bertrand Russell’s epic polemic A History of Western Philosophy:
It is noteworthy that modern Platonists, almost without exception, are ignorant of mathematics, in spite of the immense importance that Plato attached to arithmetic and geometry, and the immense influence that they had on his philosophy. This is an example of the evils of specialization: a man must not write on Plato unless he has spent so much of his youth on Greek as to have had no time for the things that Plato thought important.
This post reminded me of this quote from Bertrand Russell’s epic polemic A History of Western Philosophy: