Re: Carlo Rovelli's critique of Platonism

2017-06-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Jun 2017, at 03:34, Bruce Kellett wrote: I have just come across this paper from a year or so ago. Rovelli essentially summarizes many of my own negative feelings about mathematical platonism. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.1.pdf Exercise. Show that the Church-Turing-Post-Kleene

Re: Carlo Rovelli's critique of Platonism

2017-06-08 Thread David Nyman
On 8 Jun 2017 2:35 a.m., "Bruce Kellett" wrote: I have just come across this paper from a year or so ago. Rovelli essentially summarizes many of my own negative feelings about mathematical platonism. Interesting paper, Bruce. However AFAICS he is in effect making the