On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 04:45:00PM +0200, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > I can understand how this epstemological model can lead to the > intuition that mathematics is a "by-product" of physics, but I have a > hard time accepting that it is more than an intuition. > > I am not arguing that this is not the case, but I am arguing that you > have nothing more than an intuition. I don't think it is valid to > infer that X supervenes on Y because humans learn about X from > studying Y.
This is induction, with all the caveats that apply. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that arithmetic can be induced (maybe inferred?) from physics, rather than derived as originally claimed. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
