On 6/10/2014 4:42 PM, LizR wrote:
The whole point of using maths or arithmetic or logic as an ontological base is of course the asumption that, loosely speaking, 2 + 2 must always = 4. If we accept that this is true, all else follows, to misquote Winston Smith.
Except as Peter Jones was fond of pointing out, for a statement of a relation to be true does not require that the relata exist. I think philosophers call this a "free logic".
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