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Re: The Distinguishability argument of the Reals.
Posted:
Jan 6, 2013 1:43 PM
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On Jan 6, 7:37 am, fom <fomJ...@nyms.net> wrote:
> On 1/6/2013 1:42 AM, Virgil wrote:
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> > In article <x96dnZCwBZhAtXTNnZ2dnUVZ_uSdn...@giganews.com>,
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> >> On 1/6/2013 12:20 AM, Virgil wrote:
> >>> In article <44CdnXjhda1zcHXNnZ2dnUVZ_omdn...@giganews.com>,
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> >>>> On 1/5/2013 4:32 PM, Virgil wrote:
> >>>>> But mathematics is NOT a science. Its truths and values are in no way
> >>>>> dependent on physical experimentation or scientific observations of the
> >>>>> physical world
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> >>>> I would actually disagree with this. The meaning of the
> >>>> word "science" changed significantly in the nineteenth
> >>>> century as "scientist" became a profession.
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> >>> Science is ultimately concerned with the behavior of the physical world.
> >>> Mathematics limits itself to a certain aspects of the mental world.
> >>> As Einstein remarked:
> >>> "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they
> >>> are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they
> >>> do not refer to reality." ~Albert Einstein.
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> >> Science is concerned with objective
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> >> Physicalism need not be materialistic.
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> >> Einstein was a Kantian. Check at plato.stanford.edu.
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> >> That quote need not be interpreted the way you
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> > No quote need be interpreted the way its quoter intended.
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> Quite true.
Clemens' law of conservation of greath truths: "for each Great Truth,
there's an equal and opposite Great Truth." Einstein: "God doesn't
play dice." Also, "I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in
the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself
with the fate and the doings of mankind.", then, "I believe that
whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however,
that we cannot see through to it."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
Einstein _firmly_ believed in mathematics as real.
"A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary
particles (electron,etc.) and not be forced to state them a priori."
Regards,
Ross Finlayson
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