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To: SeekAndFind

Mathematics is just the imposition of human cognitive structure on the world-as-it-is. Most mathematicians would disagree with this statement, since most are Platonists.


9 posted on 06/26/2013 9:35:12 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov

They would disagree with it because it is ontologically false. Mathematical systems are all either contradictory or logically incomplete. The world is not logically incomplete. It is also epistemologically false, since there are mathematical systems that do not confirm to, and cannot exist within, in the material universe.


15 posted on 06/26/2013 10:40:12 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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