Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-07 Thread John Mikes
Stephen: I tried. I have difficulty in following fast talking videos in general, wouold appreciate to have it as URL somewhere. John Mikes On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.netwrote: For your entertainment:

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-07 Thread Stephen Paul King
Yes, if there was a text of this it would be nice... I found this: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/ On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:33 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen: I tried. I have difficulty in following fast talking videos in general, wouold

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-07 Thread meekerdb
On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Yes, if there was a text of this it would be nice... I found this: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/ A fictionalist account holds that some things are fictional, i.e. don't exist even though their complete description is

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-07 Thread Stephen Paul King
If you believe that a flying pink elephant is pink, must you believe a flying pink elephant exists? Yes, at least for the chap that holds the belief and the belief is true (ala Bruno). On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul