Bruno Marchal wrote: > Le 27-oct.-06, à 00:40, 1Z a écrit : > > >>> Tom Caylor: > >>> Mathematical logic is richer than that. This is what Bruno is > >>> saying, > >>> that the math path points toward Rome. And it is no more scary (a la > >>> possible spirits lurking under/in every rock) than the matter path. > >>> Limiting math as you are doing, and as Brent Meeker does in his > >>> response to my (X and not-X) note, is ignoring such evidence as the > >>> proofs of Godel and Tarski's Indefinability Theorem. > >>> > >>> Tom > >> > >> Brent Meeker: But as I understand it, Bruno wants to identify > >> "mathematical existence" with true existence statements about > >> mathematical objects. > >> Some of these are unprovable. They can be consistently added to the > >> axioms. But also their negation can be consistently added to the > >> axioms. But not both. So there are disjoint realms of consistent > >> mathematics - some are Rome, some are Athens, some are Tuva, most are > >> Harry Potter's home town. > > > > 1Z (Peter Jones): I suppose that is why he wants to base his case on > > the > > subset of arithmetic everyone agrees on.
> > Exactly. The manoeuvre addresses the mathematical objections to Platonism whilst doing nothing about the philosophical. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
