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- From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
- Subject: Re: Report on Philosophies of Physicists
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.132003.15495@sei.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Software Engineering Institute
- References: <1223@kepler1.rentec.com> <22218@galaxy.ucr.edu> <1992Sep10.034627.3965@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:20:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.034627.3965@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
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- >Today we all firmly believe that mathematics is a human activity.
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- Include me out. I'm a genuine, hard core, ostrakon carrying Platonist,
- and I believe the entities discovered by mathematicians have a real
- existence.
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- Humans my make crop circles, but the Mandelbrot Set is an artifact
- from the hand of a rather better watchmaker.
-