Newsgroups: sci.math, sci.logic
From: Klaus Cammin <netzkl...@klaca.de>
Date: 6 Oct 2008 05:21:33 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 6 2008 1:21 am
Subject: Re: A consideration concerning the diagonal argument of G. Cantor
Albrecht schrieb:
> So in your world there are only things, nothing more? No, actually I agree to WM, that ideas depend on physics, i.e. that they're not beyond physics. The important issue here is, whether "things" are outside or inside the brain. And I think, many "things" are only inside a brain, and will vanish, if there is no brain any longer, which is, I believe, a plausible assumption. > Your problem is, Do you think it's getting any better, when you just try to weaken the > you confuse the word "thing" in the sense of "a part of our reality" > witht the word "thing" in the sense of "a physical object". differences of ideas and material objects? Does that prove, that numbers have the same ontological status as things, even using your definition as "part of our reality"? No, on the contrary: it IS an ontological difference, if one "part of our What you're doing here, is, creating things by thought. That's ok, So I think, for you (natural) numbers are something like "holy things", However contemporary mathematicians don't like to let philosophical This might make today's math smell platonistic at times, but I don't care. Call it invention, physically impossible, whatever you like, the Viele Grüße You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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