Re: Numbers

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:44:07 +0100

Le 17-mars-06, à 01:31, Brent Meeker a écrit :

>> Hmmm... okay, so last questions what is an abstract thing ? what does
>> it means
>> to be abstract ? what render a thing real ? what does it means for it
>> to be
>> real ? what does it means to be real ?
>
> If you kick it, it kicks back.
> --- Vic Stenger, after Samuel Johnson

But, as David Deutsch explains in its FOR book, mathematical reality
kicks back too.

Bruno

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


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