Re: Why? [was Re: Cantor`s powerset theorem is false?]


george wrote:

I hate to break this to you: THIS IS MATH.
EVERYthing that exists exists JUST BECAUSE *I* *SAID* *SO*.
NO other criterion is relevant. If I can coherently allege that it
exists THEN IT DOES.

And that's true because ... uh ... because you say so?

I'm claiming that mathematics has a purpose; it is not merely a game.
Its purpose is to provide tools that help us understand the world in
which we live. And, so I allege, if mathematics does not have the
property of being "observable" as I have defined it, it does not have
the potential to provide those tools -- it is merely a game And, so
I'm claiming, there is something wrong with the authorities using the
publicly funded educational system to force students to play games.

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