Re: the need for relevance
- From: Virgil <Virgil@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:26:24 -0700
In article <e4945$478dc546$82a1e228$5832@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If the real world is consistent - and it IS,
The "real world" is under no obligation to correspond to your notions of
consistency.
because otherwise it would cease to exist - then mathematical stuff,
not giving outcomes that match with the real world, is inconsistent.
That presumes that there is only one form of consistency, which
presumption does not follow from any characteristic of the HdB's version
of a real world.
.
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