John, List.
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> but offhand it seems to me to depedn on a sort of idealism that I do not
> accept.
"It does not. It does rely on Church thesis, which relies on arithmetical
realism, that is the idea that elementary arithmetical truth are NOT a creation
of the mind, which is a form of anti-idealism."
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I am utterly confused by this post.
It seems to intermingle mathematics, logic, philosophy and personal beliefs
without any apparent connection to the history of the subjects or science.
I have not any idea what "elementary arithmetics truths" means. Do you wish to
include or exclude logs? Either way, are you including or excluding arithmetic
and/or geometric progressions from "arithmetic realism"?
Could you be specific and point out the exact relations between "truths" as
used in this context and your philosophy of physics? Or the nature of physics?
"a creation of the mind" ?? What does this possibly mean in this context? In
particular, do you wish to imply or infer or illate that the human mind before
the social creation of arithmetic symbol systems was somehow "non-creative"??
VERY CONFUSING from a historical perspective.
"a form of anti-idealism"??? Perhaps you mean something to do with
representation or symbolization of your beliefs? Why introduce "form" as a
concept related to a personal view of "anti-idealism" Makes no sense to me.
Does your view reject the polar opposites / electricity of Schelling?
Finally, I would note that Dalton's Law of ratio of small whole numbers, an
established physical principle based on the atomic numbers and fundamental to
quantum chemistry, contradicts the essence of your post as I understand it.
Frankly, I can not find any immediate coherence between this article and either
electro-mechanical or electro-chemical principles that are essential to
physical and chemical information theory.
Cheers
Jerry
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