Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 01/30/05


Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:21:53 GMT

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:52:47 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.net> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

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>Lester Zick wrote:
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>> If the math is real, it's obviously about the real world.
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>Mathematics is abstract, so it is not real in the physical sense.

Neither is this conversation real in the physical sense. Neither is
this conversation mathematical. Neither is mathematics logic. You see,
when we examine things logically, we begin to get all sorts of things
that aren't mathematics despite the pretensions of mathematikers.

Regards - Lester



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