Gary: > On Oct 20, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard <jeffrey.down...@nau.edu> > wrote: > > Gary F., Mike, List, > > Should we expand the claim about mathematical objects? Gary F says: "That > includes mathematical and other imaginary objects, which may be intelligible > without being perceptible by the senses. Indeed it is only in the > mathematical realm that necessary reasoning can be done, because the objects > of pure mathematics have no being except what they are defined to have."
I concur with Jeffrey’s definition, which,I think, is widely accepted. In addition, I am curious about your Peircian grounding of the assertion: > it is only in the mathematical realm that necessary reasoning can be done, Do you have specific passages in mind? Cheers Jerry
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