On Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 2:18 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 8/12/2022 10:56 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > Below is what I wrote: > > The way I like to think about it is this: If one is willing to believe > that truth values for mathematical relations like “2 + 2 = 4” can exist and > be true independently of the universe or someone writing it down, or a > mathematician thinking about it, that is all you need. > > > But it's truth value does depend on someone assigning the value "t" to > some axioms and all mathematical truth values are nothing but "t" > arbitrarily assigned to some axioms plus some rules of inference that > preserve "t". "t" has little to do with what it true in the world. > The physical world chugs along with anyone having to assign to assign values, or apply rules of inference. Why can't the same be true for other platonic objects? 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUhvvbyUDTZnrmvALn3GQ%2B4%3D0nb7%3DyT90BGrEKqNgLx6kw%40mail.gmail.com.
