Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ArGee

Where do laws of logic come from, how do we know they apply through space and time?

Why does the universe follow mathematical laws?

Numbers are concepts, contained wholly in the mind....where did the concept originate? Were there numbers before the was a mind to conceive them?


60 posted on 11/05/2015 12:33:34 PM PST by GilesB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies ]


To: GilesB

I didn’t know logic had laws. I thought it had rules. I view logic as a human construct.

I don’t think the universe follows mathematical laws. I think mathematics models the laws the universe follows.

Your last one is very interesting. If I am holding 6 rocks, the fact that there are 6 is simply a reality, but does the fact that there are 6 and not 5 or 7 have any meeaning without a mind to comprehend the difference? In one case the number 6 is a reality of its own. In the other it’s a construct of the mind which conceived it.

I think I’ll go with the latter, but I can understand the case for the former.


70 posted on 11/05/2015 1:08:25 PM PST by ArGee (There are three types of liars. Liars, damned liars, and Clintons)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson