On Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 11:03:22 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > There was no physics before writing, also; but there was a physical > reality and a mathematical reality before human writing, and before humans, > although this is metaphorical, as the arithmetical reality is out of time > and space. It is a category error to ask if 2+2=4 is true now or yesterday. > > Bruno > >
As the mathematical fictionalist* would deny the existence of numbers in the first place, "2+2=4" is only true in the sense that there is a language that has been created in which that sentence is labeled "true". If there were some eternal language outside anything we we call material reality .... (sort of like, *In the beginning was The Word* ...) * [ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/ ], written by Mark Balaguer [ http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/mark-balaguer ]. - p -- 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.
