On Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 3:29 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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". > Perhaps conventionally. But perhaps physical existence is platonic existence (i.e. all self-consistent structures exist, all rule based formal systems, etc.). This would account for fine-tuning, and plausibly yield an answer to "why quantum mechanics?" Jason > Brent > > -- > 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/e8a7222b-87f6-aebc-3e2f-26723732e436%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e8a7222b-87f6-aebc-3e2f-26723732e436%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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%2BBCJUgP-SbuidhgRwmSk-mFmpBFqBS_2ZdudgAZuopbUR5urQ%40mail.gmail.com.
