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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: Report on Philosophies of Physicists
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.032800.14769@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <TORKEL.92Sep14095330@isis.sics.se> <1992Sep14.190245.7926@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <TORKEL.92Sep14233501@bast.sics.se>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:28:00 GMT
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- In article <TORKEL.92Sep14233501@bast.sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
- >So, setting aside and completely
- >ignoring 19th century mathematicians, all you need to do to meet any
- >challenge of mine is to explain what you yourself were talking about
- >in your original article as you spoke of "a foundation for
- >mathematics".
-
- Well, I don't see how one could read my "mathematical community finding
- that Cantor's theory provided an attractive and workable foundation for
- mathematics" as their finding this for *all* mathematics unless they
- actually *did* all mathematics. So just from context this part *has*
- to mean "their mathematics". And that's all I intended in that
- particular sentence. (I think this was the sentence you originally
- objected to, yes?) Sorry if my previous attempts at conveying this
- weren't clear.
-
- --
- ======================================================| God found the positive
- Vaughan Pratt pratt@cs.Stanford.EDU 415-494-2545 | integers, zero was
- ======================================================| there when He arrived.
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