On 20 January 2014 18:51, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > You seem not to appreciate that this dissipates the one essential > advantage of mathematical monism: we understand mathematics (because, I > say, we invent it). But if it's a mere human invention trying to model the > Platonic ding and sich then PA may not be the real arithmetic. And > there will have to be some magic math stuff that makes the real arithmetic > really real. > > Surely the real test is whether it works better than any other theory. (The phrase "unreasonable effectiveness" appears to indicate that it does.)
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