On 14 February 2014 07:23, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Craig,
>
> I also suspect Bruno's math skills are superior to mine, but his
> understanding of the place of math in reality seems pretty deficient, or
> perhaps just rigid.
>
> As I've pointed out his 8 steps may well be mathematically consistent but
> that doesn't mean they have anything to do with the fundamental structure
> of reality at all. To meaningfully apply a purely mathematical or logical
> proof to reality, one must establish an actual correspondence of the
> variables in the proof to actual variables of reality. I don't see Bruno
> doing that at all.
>

What you have to do is show that either his assumptions are wrong, or that
he has made a mistake in the logical inferences he draws from them. The
"correspondence with reality" comes down to whether the original
assumptions are realistic (i.e. accord with reality) or not.

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