SethRy         
         
Banno         
         
SethRy         
         
Devans99         
         What would be an example of unsuitable math? — DingoJones
"Mathematics is essential to the world.
— SethRy
Nuh. Mathematics is essential to our descriptions of the world, That's not the same. — Banno
Banno         
         We can say mathematics predates the universe. We can also say that mathematics is universal and transcends the universe — Devans99
You would devise a proper mathematical theorem or formula to solve a problem, — SethRy
DingoJones         
         
SethRy         
         God if he exists is a mathematician, but he did not invent maths, he just discovered it. — Devans99
Devans99         
         As if it were astonishing that the word "peanut" can be about any peanut, anywhere: '"Peanut" is universal and transcends the universe'.
Mathematics is constructed, not found. — Banno
Because if you argue that mathematics was not invented, it was infinite, then that unstoppable regress would live by the existence of the cosmos and the world — therefore essential to the universe, to the world. — SethRy
SethRy         
         
Devans99         
         So, I personally believe, that God, not only a god, created mathematics and utilised it to construct the cosmos. — SethRy
SethRy         
         For example, its not possible to construct a coherent maths where 1+1!=2, IE maths is invariant - whoever 'creates' it creates exactly the same thing each time... hence it seems 'discovered' is a more appropriate word. — Devans99
Devans99         
         He can't make square-circles or 2-2=7 because he permanently designed logic as well, in a way that is infinite yet understandable to human or more specifically, contingent perspectives — SethRy
Metaphysician Undercover         
         Nuh. Mathematics is essential to our descriptions of the world, That's not the same. — Banno
SethRy         
         I don't see how you could 'design' logic if logic did not exist. You would not be able to design anything without knowing the difference between right and wrong. — Devans99
Devans99         
         The beginning was undefinable — SethRy
SethRy         
         The act of creation requires logic. It would require logic to create time. It would require logic to 'create/discover' logic. So logic can't be a creation; it must be a discovery. — Devans99
Devans99         
         If logic was discovered, then is it essential to this god and the universe? That without logic, the universe and the world could not exist? — SethRy
James Statter         
         
SethRy         
         
Devans99         
         Okay. Suppose again, the beginning was absolute nothingness - not even nonexistence, not even nothingness. I just used the word nothingness, only to start a concept. Nothing at all, that even nothingness was void. — SethRy
jorndoe         
         What would be an example of unsuitable math? — DingoJones
Devans99         
         
Devans99         
         
Devans99         
         
jorndoe         
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