Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Albert (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:26:51 -0600

Lester Zick wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:14:50 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
> <nowhere@nowhere.net> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>
>
>>Lester Zick wrote:
>>
>>>So all of a sudden mathematics is all about reality? Just because you
>>>add the undefined qualifications abstract and applied? Hooey! Talk
>>>about special pleading. And you wonder why I call them mathematikers.
>>
>>Read what I wrote. Applied mathematics has some added stuff that makes
>>it connect with physical reality. Pure mathematics does not.
>
>
> Neither does pure bull*** unless you can define the added stuff
> universally which, given your proclivities, is about as likely as the
> second coming.

I would say the 'added stuff' is nothing more than a proper
mapping of axioms, which are accepted and true, to empirical
evidence, which is apparently true, i.e. the conversion of a
valid argument to a sound argument. 

-- 
"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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