Re: Existence of mathematical entities (Re: Successor Axiom: on what grounds TF?)

examachine_at_gmail.com
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: 25 Feb 2005 13:46:00 -0800

robert j. kolker wrote:
> examachine@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Nothing exists until you have empirical evidence for it. You don't
have
> > to do empirical study for every expression, that's like trying to
> > answer "What didn't you do today?"
>
> Let me get this straight. You say the the planet Neptune did not
exist
> until someone saw it through a telescope?
>
> Things exist or don't exist independent of whether anyone knows they
> exist or not. -Demonstrating- existence (of physical entities) may
> require empirical evidence but the -existence- as such does not.

Of course I mean "demonstrating" that far is evident from the context.

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