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- From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Subject: Re: Numbers and sets
- Message-ID: <BzzHDI.2Bv@umassd.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:12:53 GMT
- References: <Bzsrvt.167@umassd.edu>,<1992Dec28.155555.21505@guinness.idbsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.155555.21505@guinness.idbsu.edu>, holmes@opal.idbsu.edu
- (Randall Holmes) writes:
- >In article <Bzsrvt.167@umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
- >> Is there a relationship between sets and Plato's Forms?
-
- Plato's Forms were ideal exemplars of
- >mundane objects; sets do not have this character (the set of all
- >natural numbers is not a perfect natural number).
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- Perhaps I should have asked about Kantian, subjective forms. I am starting
- "Plato, Kant and Aristotle in Math" by Glenn Marcus (2nd Renaissance Books,
- 1991, audio) and should have some wisdom on math soon.
- Marcus says scientists (excepting computer scientists w/info theory) use
- only pre-20th century math and quotes a leading mathematician on the
- impracticality of math. Comments?
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- "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- AYN RAND
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- Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASS.EDU>
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