every language we know of has words for one and two and some, just like all have words for live and die.
https://intranet.secure.griffith.edu.au/schools-departments/natural-semantic-metalanguage/what-is-nsm/semantic-primes — Lionino
In the logic thread I proposed "logos" for the logic-like function of the world. I wonder what a good term would be for "the apparently mathematical in nature?" Quantos? Mathematicularity? Máthēma? Quanticularity — Count Timothy von Icarus
the apparently mathematical in nature — Count Timothy von Icarus
Quantos? Mathematicularity? Máthēma? Quanticularity? — Count Timothy von Icarus
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Would you deprive us from a future where articles in metaphysics discuss "quanticularity qua quanticularity?" :cool: — Count Timothy von Icarus
I wish I still had the philosophy of math anthology book that featured the math philosophers who argued for the construction of mathematics as an empirical endeavor.But I chuckle at where it may have taken off: this idea that Math pre-exists our constructions. — ENOAH
math philosophers who argued for the construction of mathematics as an empirical endeavor. — L'éléphant
I think of Newton, developing calculus to describe physical phenomena. And perhaps some math is created in this fashion today. But by and large it's not an empirical process. Although math is called the Queen of the Sciences, it is not really a science — jgill
What does it look like? Have you seen it personally in real life or even in your dreams?Being for me is to be in this world to have existence in this physical world but all encompassing physical reality , space, time and thought with it. Like an intertwined whole with several distinguishable parts which cannot be separated — Abhiram
In the logic thread I proposed "logos" for the logic-like function of the world. I wonder what a good term would be for "the apparently mathematical in nature?" — Count Timothy von Icarus
; anything not perceived in/by Human Consciousness, does not exist for Human Consciousness."to exist is to be perceived." — Corvus
No. They're not that fancy. They're practicing math scholars and philosophers.Lakatos? — Lionino
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