Re: Platonism

From: Jesse F. Hughes (jesse_at_phiwumbda.org)
Date: 12/08/04


Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:15:48 +0100

Mitch Harris <harrisq@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> writes:

> Lester Zick wrote:
>>
>> Tautologies are necessarily composed of empirical observations.
>
> I really can't buy that. Not with generally accepted definitions of
> the terms.

But Lester's comments on sets and cardinality are so insightful,
surely he's just as right here?

-- 
"Destiny is a funny thing. Once I thought I was destined to become
 Emperor of Greenland, sole monarch over its 52,000 inhabitants.  Then
 I thought I was destined to build a Polynesian longship in my garage.
 I was wrong then, but I've got it now." -- The Tick

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