On 4/09/2017 9:00 am, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
I cannot see Math Not being real, because it would fail, enormously,
if "laws" of the cosmos, did not work. In other words, we could
describe the world via phlogiston mist, or, luminiferous ether (tip o'
the hat to the 19th century scientists), so it works. If math didn't
work, simple objects like planets would not reliably work, circling
their parent star. Are there any counter-examples, where Math fails to
describe? Or, does Math have real examples of failure? Please cite
these. G'wan!
Is English real? Is French real? ....
The fact that maths can be used to describe physical reality does not
mean that it is any more "real" than any other descriptive language.
Descriptive success does not imply an independent ontology for the
language, or that it is "primary" in any sense.
Bruce
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