On 8/12/2022 12:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
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?
Because "Platonic" means "exists only in imagination".
Brent
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