On 1/20/2014 1:11 AM, LizR wrote:
On 20 January 2014 18:51, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[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.)
Would it work any less well if there were a biggest number?
Brent
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