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Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper

Very Bad Wizards

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Playing Chess as if It Were a Game

The idea is chess is like that except that the difference being only that every single person always plays chess right as if it was games whereas that's not true with math and science. If we can play math and science games but math and science are not games i think there's equivocation here, he says. "It all does hinge on this technical definition of of pre-lucery goal and why he says in chess it doesn't have them"

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