On 23 January 2014 19:35, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/22/2014 10:21 PM, LizR wrote: > >> The real world doesn't add raindrops, or most other things we think of as >> entities - adding raindrops isn't 1+1, nature is really adding something >> like 10^25 atoms to another 10^25. But it _does_ add bosons in a BEC. Even >> when the constituents are indistinguishable, nature can perform simple >> arithmetic with them. >> > > I'd say *we* perform simple arithmetic to describe them - but only when we > correctly recognize what is countable and what isn't. So the truth of > Ax(x=/=x+1) is in Platonia. >
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