On 23 January 2014 19:42, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/22/2014 10:38 PM, LizR wrote: > > 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. >> > > Platonia? Where's that, then? > > In our heads and in our language (and publications of the AMS). > > So that's where the truth or otherwise of Ax(x=/=x+1) is. OK.
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