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On 2/7/2015 12:59 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote:
List:
From a recent paper by F Csatari, Some Remarks on the Physicalist Account of
Mathematics.
"an approach to mathematics following the philosophy-first principle (as
opposed to the philosophy-last-if-at-all principle).
It seems to me that when reading CSP, some of us use the former and others use
the latter approach!
Cheers
Jerry
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=19198&utm_campaign=LinkedIn&utm_medium=ldc#.VNZDLBZjNFw
Some Remarks on the Physicalist Account of Mathematics
Ferenc Csatári
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University,
Budapest, Hungary Email: [email protected]
Received February 28th, 2012; revised March 25th, 2012; accepted April 9th, 2012
The paper comments on a rather uncommon approach to mathematics called
physicalist formalism. According to this view, the formal systems
mathematicians concern with are nothing more and nothing less than genuine
physical systems. I give a brief review on the main theses, then I provide some
arguments, concerning mostly with the practice of mathematics and the
uniqueness of formal systems, aiming to show the implausibility of this radical
view.
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