On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08 Jun 2013, at 17:55, meekerdb wrote: > > On 6/8/2013 1:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 08 Jun 2013, at 05:15, meekerdb 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? > > > > Flying pink elephants are pink and not pink. That's why flying pink elephant > can't exist. > > > A pink elephant is pink by construction. > > > Exact. But the flying pink elephant are also not pink. By logic. Or show me > a flying pink elephant living on this planet which isn't not pink.
Bruno, how are flying pink elephants any different from things that I remember but am not experiencing this very moment? For example, I've been to Brussels but I'm not there right now. Brussels is an abstraction in my mind, but I believe it's the capital of Belgium. That's part of the Brussels abstraction, in the same sense that being pink is part of the flying pink elephant abstraction. No? Telmo. > Bruno > > > > > > Brent > > > -- > 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. > > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
