Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-02-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 2/23/07, Tom Caylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 20, 3:47 am, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/20/07, Tom Caylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimate meaning is analogous to axioms or arithmetic truth (e.g. 42 is not prime). In fact the famous quote of Kronecker

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-02-23 Thread Tom Caylor
On Feb 23, 3:59 am, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/23/07, Tom Caylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point in quoting Kronecker was to simply to allude to the fact that the foundations of mathematics are axiomatic in a similar way that ultimate meaning is ultimate. We have

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-02-23 Thread Tom Caylor
On Feb 23, 8:51 pm, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/07, Tom Caylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that positivists don't like metaphysics, and they actually don't believe in it either. The problem with this is that science is ultimately based on (and is inescapably