" If you believe that a flying pink elephant is pink, must you believe a flying pink elephant exists?"
Yes, at least for the chap that holds the belief and the belief is true (ala Bruno). On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Yes, if there was a text of this it would be nice... I found this: > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/ > > > A fictionalist account holds that some things are fictional, i.e. don't > exist even though their complete description is self-consistent. > Everythingists apparently reject this idea. Platonists seem to equate > 'true' with 'exists'. If you believe 17 is prime you must believe 17 > exists. I think this is wrong. If you believe that a flying pink > elephant is pink, must you believe a flying pink elephant exists? > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/_ONFIcyntY4/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. > > > -- 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.
