On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > (BTW, some do not consider mathematics to be a science. I do not know why.) >
That would be the logical-positivists? I thought that species went extinct.. If I understand it correctly, their argument was that math is only a set of symbols and no purely mathematical statement can be proved or disproved in an experiment, thus math has no empirical content and is merely a language like any other.. That's another tough argument to counter without resorting to intuition.. -raghu. -- "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
