On 04 Aug 2012, at 17:19, Stephen P. King wrote:
Hi Bruno,
There was a typing error in what I wrote originally. Please try
it again.
On 8/4/2012 7:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
[SPK]
Yes, and that is exactly why I am asking you to reconsider the
idea that "arithmetic is ontologically primitive"! When we reduce
a class to the ontological primitive level (meaning that all else
supervenes upon that class or some subclass thereof), then we make
the relational structure of that class degenerate. We literally
eliminate the meaningfulness of the class if we make it uniquely
primitive. This is why a primitive class is denoted as "neutral".
It cannot be "any particular thing", it is either "Everything" or
"Nothing" or both simultaneously (depending on your pedagogical
stance).
I cannot give sense to that paragraph.
Are you familiar with the concept of degeneracy?
Yes.
Explain why assuming addition and multiplication makes arithmetic or
reality degenerate.
Again, even if true, it cannot be relevant, given that I explain why
and how physics (both the sharable part (quanta) and the non sharable
part (qualia) are entirely reduced to number's theology, and this in a
way which refutes once and for all any reductionist conception of the
soul/person.
You seem to always start from the conclusion, and criticize it for
philosophical reason. You should proceed in the other way round: start
from the assumption (comp) and use your philosophical idea to find a
flaw in the reasoning.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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