On Sunday, December 30, 2018 at 7:35:26 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 30 Dec 2018, at 08:33, Philip Thrift <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > There is no "even" or "odd" prior to the existence of* matter.* > > > With some act of faith in some notion of matter. No problem with this, > unless this is used in conjunction with Mechanism. > > But there is a problem with this view in the foundations of physics, as > physicist presuppose numbers in their theories. That works FAPP, but is a > problem, even without mechanism, in the materialistic ontologies. > > Bruno >
By "matter" I just mean all "the stuff" there is. "Numbers" are merely (human-made) language entities used in communicating (human-made) theories about "the stuff". - pt -- 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.
