Le 16-août-06, à 03:39, Brent Meeker a écrit :
> I agree. Mathematics and logic are ways of constraining our
> propositions so
> we don't assert contradictions; contradictions of our own rules. But
> that
> doesn't mean they are strong enough to keep us from asserting
> absurdities.
I think math is much more than that. Consistent but uninteresting
theories dies quickly.
It is a point that physicist are hard to get it. Cf Einstein. Good
counter-example: David Deutsch.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Wed Aug 16 2006 - 10:37:37 PDT