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You do realize, I hope, that Mathematical Realism isSame tune different chords.
That's one opinion. Yet another is that math is (are?) man made languages that are useful for communicating certain types of information. On the plus side for the second claim is the fact we actually see actual people inventing new mathematical concepts. On the minus side for the first one is the complete lack of evidence of god(s) doing much of anything.
And purple Tuesday farting pixies even longer than that.
So why are you defending Mathematical Realism?
You can use semantics and misrepresent what is being said all you wish but it will never manage to nullify the obvious.You do realize, I hope, that Mathematical Realism is
1. Unfalsifiable
2. Not essential to belief in God or any Christian doctrine.
Amen!Not even sure what that is, having never looked into it. I was affirming that God is the Creator of all.
I always use semantics when I write--grammar and spelling, too.You can use semantics and misrepresent what is being said all you wish but it will never manage to nullify the obvious.
Mathematical Realism is the philosophical doctrine that mathematics is objectively real and thus was discovered by man rather than invented by him.Not even sure what that is, having never looked into it. I was affirming that God is the Creator of all.
I have to disagree with this (and this only). The concept of "2 + 2 = 4" is found in nature. No civilization on Earth, nor any civilization in the far reaches of the Universe will ever determine that two items in their understanding with another two items in their understanding will ever find the total number of items so arranged are anything but four in their understanding.One thing we must realize is that mathematics is a human invention.
Mathematical Realism is the philosophical doctrine that mathematics is objectively real and thus was discovered by man rather than invented by him.
And I'm simply affirming that your claim has yet to be established.
Which items are these? How do you count them? You say that "number" exists in nature? Where is it?I have to disagree with this (and this only). The concept of "2 + 2 = 4" is found in nature. No civilization on Earth, nor any civilization in the far reaches of the Universe will ever determine that two items in their understanding with another two items in their understanding will ever find the total number of items so arranged are anything but four in their understanding.
Show me a perfectly flat surface and a perfectly round circle in nature.The ratio of the diameter of a circle to the circumference of the same circle - on a two dimensional surface will always be pi, no matter what it is called.
The theorem of Pythagorus applies exactly only to highly idealized abstract triangles. For real triangular entities it is only ever approximately true.The sides of a right triangle - again in place geometry - will follow the rules of Pythagorus, even if they haven't heard of him.
Mathematics, like the other axiomatic formal systems to which it is related, models the order of nature--it does not cause it.Mathematics is the human codification of natural laws, perhaps. But none of the precepts therein were 'invented' by humans.
Mathematics is the human codification of natural laws, perhaps. But none of the precepts therein were 'invented' by humans.
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