It may be taboo, but I think the taboo is there for a reason - which is that to day that there is a Platonic realm implies a physical place in which pure forms or ideas are present independent of any content. Ask a mathematician instead whether there is a sense of mathematical truth that is universal, I don't think there would be as much resistance. Sense does not need a separate realm because sense can only be "here".
Craig On Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:41:36 AM UTC-4, Roger Clough wrote: > > The Taboo of Platonism > > Ask most mathematicians if they believe that > they invent new theorems or discover them. > If they discover those truths, then there is a pre-existing > Platonic realm of mathematical truth to which they naturally have access. > > But if you aski them afterwards uif they believe that there > is a pre-existing Platonic realm in which mathematics exists, > they will deny it for the most part. > > Because it is taboo to admit to the existence of > a Platonic realm. > > - Roger Clough > > > > Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 4/11/2013 > http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
