Re: Numbers

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:24:59 -0800

peterdjones.domain.name.hidden wrote:
>
> Georges Quénot wrote:
>
>>peterdjones.domain.name.hidden wrote:
>>
>>>Quentin Anciaux wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>What properties of the multiverse would render only one mathematical object
>>>>real and others abstract...
>>>
>>>A non-mathematical property. Hence mathematics alone is not sufficient
>>>to explain the world. QED.
>
>
> This has to be a non-mathematical property because it is contingent,
> and all mathematical
> truth is necessary.

It is necessairly true *given the axioms*. Suppose there is an axiom that picks
out some worlds as real.

Brent Meeker

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