On Feb 20, 6:53 pm, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 Feb 2011, at 00:39, benjayk wrote:
> You will find the best and the worst. Podnieks' page is not too > bad.http://www.ltn.lv/~podnieks/ "a correct philosophical position of a mathematician should be: a) Platonism - on working days - when I'm doing mathematics (otherwise, my "doing" will be inefficient), b) Formalism - on weekends - when I'm thinking "about" mathematics (otherwise, I will end up in mysticism). (The initial version of this aphorism was proposed in 1979 by Reuben Hersh / picture)." But actually the correct philosophy is the weekend philosophy, because it is always weekend for philosophers. What mathematicians apply during the week is methodology. -- 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?hl=en.
