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Topic: Is it possible that 3+4=8?
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Hauke Reddmann

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Re: Is it possible that 3+4=8?
Posted: Jan 25, 2011 7:52 AM
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Craig Feinstein <cafeinst@msn.com> wrote:

<fairies>
I don't let any stinkin pixies touch MY balls!
I'm a Platonist!

But assume your scenario. Assume even you get a working
physics with pixies interfering with the electrons.
(You must have 3 *of everything* + ... in this scenario!)
Well, I bet mathematicians still would define a
self-consistent math (as you saw in this thread, those
dudes are inventive :-) and philosophers would have a
field day explaining why math does not describe the
real world.
But I prefer this one, frankly.
--
Hauke Reddmann <:-EX8 fc3a501@uni-hamburg.de
Leierklang und ein flammendes Inferno grüßen dich
auf das Allerzärtlichste

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