On 01 Mar 2014, at 07:04, meekerdb wrote:
On 2/28/2014 9:22 PM, LizR wrote:
Nevertheless, it does seem to be. That is, 17 is a prime number
regardless of whether anyone knows it is, or even knows what
numbers are, or indeed whether anyone is even alive (e.g. it was
prime in the first instants of the big bang - maths has been used
to work out what happened in the early universe, with observable
consequences now). There's a lot of hand waving going on to deny
this, but I haven't seen a knock down argument (or even a
suggestion of one) to indicate otherwise.
To deny what? That 17 is prime? That's a tautology. It's our
theory that the world consists of countable things - whether it
really is, is questionable.
Well, in the comp theory, there are no countable things, and non
mechanically countable things, etc. Both in the math, the physics, the
theology, etc.
Bruno
Brent
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