Re: Numbers

From: 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:39:32 -0800

chales1.domain.name.hidden wrote:

> He has proven beyond doubt, using Godellian arguments, that some numbers or intrinsically random .ie. that there is NO formulaic prescription that will reach that number from any starting point.

If Mathematical Platonism is true, they exist anyway !

What is not clear is why equations are important. Phsyics uses them,
but
physics is based on the idea that some logivally possible laws are
real and others aren't, not on the idea that everymathemtical object
is equally real.


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