Le 19-août-06, à 15:36, Günther wrote:
>> The existence of numbers is not like the existence of objects, and I >> don't >> think that most mathematical Platonists would say that it is. I agree with them. We have to distinguish many forms of "internal" or epistemological existence, build from the simplest conceptual third person ontological commitments. Comp necessitates the numbers for the "ontic" part, and the rest emerges as coherent overlapping set of of computations (quotientized through some undistinguishability first person equivalence relation). To be short. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
