On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:04 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also some serious mathematicians are finitists. > > The Meaning of Pure Mathematics > Author(s): Jan MycielskiSource: Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 18, No. > 3 (Aug., 1989), pp. 315-320Published by: SpringerStable URL: > http://www.jstor.org/stable/30227216 . > > > Come on! He believes that Platonism violates Occam. That is the same error > than believing that Everett violates Occam. Sometimes more is considerably > simpler than less, and that's the very inspiration of the "everything" list. > > > Just because I subscribe to the list doesn't oblige me accept its dogma. I > think Mycielski remark is irrelevant. Occam is no more than a rough guide > anyway.
Hi Brent, Arguably, Occam might gain the status of theory once we accept self-sampling. Of course you're not forced to accept it -- I'm agnostic on it myself. But it's not beyond the pale that Occam could actually be theory. No? Cheers, Telmo. > The point is that he shows how mathematics can be done with > infinities. > > 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. > 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
