Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> Peter Jones writes:
> > > What's the difference?
> >
> >
> > Things that exist are available for causal interaction. Numbers aren't.
>
> What could it possibly mean for numbers to "exist" in the sense you claim
> they do not? Could I be mugged by a burly number 6 in a dark alley? I don't
> think that even number-worshipping Pythagoras would have entertained
> such a notion.
It is for Pythagorenas and Platonists to explain what they mean by
"exist".
However, if you are going to claim that we are actually *in* Platonia,
(mathematical monism) there must be some equivalence between the
existence we
have and the existence numbers have.
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Received on Fri Aug 18 2006 - 11:13:27 PDT