Re: The difference between a 'chair' concept and a 'mathematical concept' ;)

From: 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:16:51 -0700

Bruno Marchal wrote:

> There is no need to reify the numbers.

[...]


> I don't think so. Once you accept that the number theoretical truth is
> independent of you (which I take as a form of humility), then it can be
> explained quite precisely why "numbers" (in a third person view-view)
> are bounded to believe in a physical (third person sharable) reality
> and in a unnameable first person reality etc.

Numbers that haven't been reified in any sense,
don't exist in any way and therefore don't behave in any
way.


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