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

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:33:22 +0200

Le 10-oct.-06, à 16:08, 1Z a écrit :



> If your Platonism is about truth, bot existence, you cannot show
> that matter is redundant,


Ah! I am glad you see my argument is a redundancy argument. If comp is
true we cannot rely on the hypothesis of primary matter to explain even
just the physical laws (not to talk on consciousness).





> because if your UD doesn't exist
> in Platonia,


... but the UD exists in Platonia. The ontological status of the UD is
the same as the ontological status of the number 5. Peano Arithmetic
can prove the existence of the UD.




> it doesn't exist in the material world either, so it
> doesn't exist at all, and therefore cannot replace anything that does
> exist.

Actually an instantiation of the UD exists in the "material world" too
(as far as the material world exists of course). The UD is just a
prgram. You can see its code here:
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/bxlthesis/Volume4CC/
4%20GEN%20&%20DU.pdf





http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group.
To post to this group, send email to everything-list.domain.name.hidden
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list-unsubscribe.domain.name.hidden
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Received on Wed Oct 11 2006 - 07:33:43 PDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Feb 16 2018 - 13:20:12 PST