Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Albert (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:32:35 -0600

robert j. kolker wrote:
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> robert j. kolker wrote:
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>> That kind of logic IS mathematics. It is not inherently or
>> intrinsically numeric.

Of course, mathematicians *use* logic, just as they *use* their
native tongue. But such use cannot thereby be claimed to be
exclusive to mathematics.

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> By the way Set Theory is a subset of mathematics. Much of mathematics,
> numerical or not, is grounded and based on set theory. The theory of
> relations such as is used in database construction is a subset of set
> theory.
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> Interestingly, all of class-object construction in software is really an
> excercise in Category Theory.

I am very leery of mathematicians who talk of theory. It implies
something unfinished and possibly unfinishable, and therefore not
mathematics at all. 

-- 
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the 
range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally 
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
     -- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"

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