On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:48 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 1/18/2015 9:16 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > If you assume it is true (independent of our ability or anything in the > universe's ability to conceive it), then it is true independently of the > universe, and hence you get arithmetical realism. > > > No, you just keep assuming that true=real. The truths of arithmetic are > about the relation of numbers. And they are true whether or not the > numbers exist, just as Dr. Watson is Holmes sidekick. > If it is true that 8 is a composite, doesn't that require the existence of a number between 1 and 8 which divides 8? In any case, while I agree there is always room to doubt the existence of the numbers and their relations, it is the most plausible explanation for existence that I have encountered. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
