[lit-ideas] Conjecture
- From: Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 13:32:34 +0000
speranza, mandaci una cartolina dopo l'esaurimento del deposito di puttanate
che inventi. se non ci riesci togliti il tappo dal buco e mettitelo nel cavo
orale
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fermat's Conjecture
We are considering Fermat's Conjecture.
As Palma notes, _he_ would not call it a conjecture.
This vis-à-vis a similar claim by McEvoy.
"The contradiction [in Frege's system, as discovered by Russell] was there
even if no one ever discovered it."
Cfr.
"Fermat's conjecture would be there even if Fermat had not conjectured it."
In a message dated 5/18/2013 6:39:18 A.M. UTC-02, donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
grants the metaphysical status of the claim, and interestingly adds:
"The negation of this metaphysical statement is that the contradiction was not
there to be discovered prior to its discovery by Russell: if you are defending
this position, then that is also a metaphysical claim. It cannot be a
criticism of a proposition, as against its negation, that the proposition is
'metaphysical' if its negation is also metaphysical."
To further analyse would be whether the metaphysical (untestable) nature of
the claim is not furthered stressed (as it is) by the point about this being a
case of interaction of an abstraction (item in World 3) as 'having a causal
effect' on a World-2 item. Or something like that.
But I will re-consider this.
Cheers,
Speranza
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