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I would say – mostly because I am prejudiced – that being mathematician implies a certain rigour of the mind. Certainly it would imply a familiarity with logic and a mathematician would tend not to throw about concepts they don’t really understand – unlike say a philosopher…. A mathematician would have an appreciation for subtleties and implicit assumptions that in my experience philosophers simply don’t have. A case in point is Deuce’s lack of appreciation of the difference between mathematical “truth” and scientific “truth” – and the fact he throws around logical concepts he/she clearly does not understand – which probably explains why she/he thinks Berlinski is so smart.