John, Le 23-août-06, à 22:24, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> As I 'believe': anything recognized by our 'senses' are our mental > interpretations of the unattainable 'reality' (if we condone its > validity). "My world" is a posteriori. This is almost my favorite way to explain Plato in one sentence. Now with "pythagorean-plato" (discussed in Plato, but even more by the neoplatonists), the question is open that the "ultimate reality" is the reality of the numbers law. Note that after Godel-Turing-Post-Church... , betting on our own consistency, we know, at least, why and how such an ultimate reality (numbers) is forever unattainable (contrary to the pregodelian, leibnizian old belief that "number" are easy to get through. I mean "natural number" (real numbers or complex numbers are terrible simplification tools, unless you define the trigonometric function which reintroduce the natural numbers in the "real" or "complex" picture. Best regards, Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
