On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:25 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/22/2015 3:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:00 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/21/2015 3:46 PM, LizR wrote: >> >> On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following statements >>>>> is true? >>>>> >>>> >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 0 >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 1 >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 2 >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 3 >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 4 >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 5 >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 6 >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 7 >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 8 >>> the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 9 >>> >>> Either you answer yes, or no to that question. If you answer yes, I >>> don't see how you can escape mathematical realism. >>> >> >> Confusing "real" and "true" again. >> > > If something has objective properties which can be said to be either > true or false, which can be discovered independently and agreed upon by > different individuals who never communicated with each other, in what > manner is that exploration any different from exploration of our physical > universe? > > I believe if something has objective properties which can be discovered > independently and agreed upon by different individuals who never > communicated with each other then the thing to which we ascribe those > objective properties is for all intents and purposes real. > > > They must have communicated, at least indirectly, otherwise they won't > have any common language and won't be able to understand one another. > > Who says they need to? An alien race might find the first binary digits of Pi to be: ``/``/````////// While in our notation, it appears as: 0010010000111111 Same alternating sequence, with different symbols, I'd say we both discovered the same object, even if we have different names for it. 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
