Georges Quénot wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Since I don't adopt the premise that everything is > > mathematical, > > I would like to clarify just that point. I understood that > you do not adopt it (and whatever your reasons I have to > respect the fact). By the way I am not sure I really :-) > adopt it either. > > But can you make a difference between adopting it and > being able to consider that it might make sense (whether > it is true or not) and conduct (or follow) reflections > in a context in which it would be conjectured as true?
I don't think Mathematical Monism makes sense (to be precise it is either incoherent, in asserting that only some mathematical objects exist, or inconsistent with observation in asserting that they all do).. > > [...] Maps are isomorphic to > > territories, but are not territories. > > Well. Territories *are* maps. Just a very specific type > of map but maps anyway. err...no they are not. You can't grow potatoes in a map of a farm. > Identity is just an isomorphism > among possibly many others. All identity relations are isomorphisms as well. Not all isomporhisms are identity relations. > The territory can be the map > and indeed vice versa. You can't fold up the farm and put it in your pocket. > Georges. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---