On 3/10/2014 8:16 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
The axiomatic of natural numbers is far more simple than anything else. You
can
always propose a much more complex theory to falsify a simple set of axioms.
I don't know that the other cases I've mentioned are more complex. Physicalism just
puts some mysterious "matter" first and makes math derivative of it. That may be wrong,
but it's hard to see why it's more complex than comp's reversal of it. The relativism
described above isn't an additional supposition added to math; it takes ideas from
biology and linguistics to see what consequences there might be when they intersect with
math.
-Gabe
Simplicity and Ockham's razor are nice heuristics, but they aren't
determinative.
Brent
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