[Wittrs] Re: Nominalism / Neil

  • From: "jrstern" <jrstern@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:53:15 -0000

--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@...> wrote:
>
> In mathematics one never wants to come up with any linkage to the
> real.

?

> So, no, there isn't any problem similar to dualism.  Mathematics
> has to do with idealized things.  We can have perfect  knowledge
> about them precisely because they are idealized.  Mathematics is
> not concerned with the real.

That's an extreme platonistic interpretation.

Any formalist interpretation, that mathematics deals with symbols,
I can better express in physicalist, algorithmic terms.

> > Because you are not using the word "symbol" for that which
> > symbolizes, you are using the term "symbol" for any mark which
> > may become a symbol, and that is the whole point.
>
> No, I am not using "symbol" for any kind of mark.

Then you are making up an entirely new usage for the word,
and I have no idea at all what you are trying to say.


Josh




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