On 3/1/2014 12:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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.
Arithmetic doesn't include countable things, aka "numbers". I think you're slipping into
mysticism, Bruno.
Brent
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