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- Path: sparky!uunet!mtnmath!paul
- From: paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Do completed infinite totalities exist? Was: Lowneheim-Skolem theorem
- Message-ID: <374@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:17:37 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.124233.24312@oracorp.com> <TORKEL.92Nov22231254@bast.sics.se>
- Organization: Mountain Math Software, P. O. Box 2124, Saratoga. CA 95070
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- In article <TORKEL.92Nov22231254@bast.sics.se>, torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
- > In article <371@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
- >
- > The "pragmatic reality" of present day mathematics is what my comments
- > have been about. The mathematics you envisage, which is pretty opaque
- > to me, may or may not be viable. By all means develop and present it.
- > I see no point in arguing about hypothetical mathematics.
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- The issue we were discussing was what questions are properly considered
- the philosophy of mathematics and which are the substance of mathematics.
- The pragmatic reality of mathematics at a given time should be largely
- irrelevant to *how* one makes this separation. I regard mathematical
- theorems as the substance and interpretation of those theorems and the
- sets they reference as the philosophy and I consider that all proofs are
- relative to some formal system, even if the system is not explicitly given.
- I am not sure what your position is.
-
- Paul Budnik
-