On 20 January 2014 18:55, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > The modeling of the world is in our interpretation of it, a mapping from > the observable world into mathematics, manipulation and inference, and the > interpretation of the result as applying to the observable world. If it > works to a lot of decimal places it means we've created a good model and > the relations between sentences must correspond to some relation in the > world. > > So the relations exist in arithmetic, and these appear to correspond to something that exists in the world. Hmm. You're making arithmetical realism sound quite plausible, I am beginning to feel that I might be swayed towards putting my Platonic hat on agani.
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