Re: Is reality unknowable?

2003-10-27 Thread CMR
What are the philosophical implications of unsolvable mathematical problems? Does this mean that mathematical reality, hence physical reality, is ultimately unknowable? It's not clear to me that the root know is terribly useful here; IMHO there is regularity and there is the random (whether

Re: Is reality unknowable?

2003-10-27 Thread CMR
CMR wrote: there is regularity and there is the random (whether it be absolute or effectively so - both are equivalent from the receiving end); the mere fact that we are having this discussion indicates some level of regularity in the interaction; but there is randomness as well; I do

Re: Is reality unknowable?

2003-10-27 Thread Joao Leao
This infamous "definition" is circunscribed to a theory, as in "we say that a physical theory has an EPR if,..." Mathematical reality is not the output of (mathematical) theories but usually its input. But I think mathematical reality does not necessary equate to mathematical truth, nor does