I have seen MatheRealism being discussed in other threads. As I don't want to get involved in too many threads, I answer here:
-possums.net> wrote: > On 2009-05-27, Brian Chandler <imaginator...@despammed.com> wrote: > > > The "is" of "there is" is not the exists() predicate, so (I suppose!) > > if you could formalise this it would not be a contradiction "as such".
That is correct! > > As I recall, he actually used the word "exist" for both aspects: both > that the number exists and that it cannot exist. He may well have > intended different meanings for each use without clarification or > distinction.
Due to the lack of tools for representing numbers with large information contents (larger than 2^80 bits, or 2^365 bits, or 2^X bits, where X is a number that may depend on the progress of physics but in any case is finite) we must accept that numbers with larger information contents (that canot be reduced) do not exist.
That means, there exist numbers (namely according to current mathematics, which calls itself realism but is simply a form of idealism) that do not exist according to fact.
"to exist" is used here in two different meanings such that "there exist(1) numbers that do not exist(2)" is not a self-contradiction.
