On Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 5:25 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 8/12/2022 12:56 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > 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.). > > > Given a sufficiently broad definition of "exists". Just like 2+2=5 for > sufficiently large values of 2. > > > This would account for fine-tuning, and plausibly yield an answer to "why > quantum mechanics?" > > > One can "account" for anything in words. > Not exactly. The existence of a plentitude implies observers should find themselves entwines with an environment having many-histories. If there was no QM, that would rule out the existence of a plentitude. 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/e88231c9-6d6a-d817-289b-91582c5add99%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e88231c9-6d6a-d817-289b-91582c5add99%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%2BBCJUjEM95SCzgjT6ek74PY6w%2BTNpt7XR1-NSkBgJk6Owfodw%40mail.gmail.com.
