Le 12-juil.-06, à 03:53, Jesse Mazer a écrit :
> Well, I don't think the world obeys mathematical laws because it is > causally > interacting with platonic forms, any more than I think the world obeys > the > law of noncontradiction because it is causally interacting with > platonic > laws of logic. I would say ontology is about the most exhaustive > possible > list of objective truths, and any entity referred to in this > exhaustive list > of objectively true statements "exists" by definition. Very well said Jesse. It is a very fundamental point. Even Godel did not entirely understand this for a time, and has been, at some moment of its intellectual life, tempted by the idea that mathematician could have a sort sixth sense letting them to apprehend "physically" platonist truth. But this can be related to its non-comp earlier temptation. Eventually Godel will see the point: physicalisation of platonia makes the relation between math and physics still more impalatable. In plato it is more simple: the "heaven" is the *intelligible in principle* realm of forms, and with Plotinus, this is extended up to the border of the non-intelligible called evil, transcendental obscurity or ... matter. This (advanced) remark could help for the arithmetical interpretation of the Plotinian hypostases. 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
