On 15 Jan 2014, at 21:03, Chris de Morsella wrote:
Stephen -- I like how he derives the natural numbers from some basic
set operations on an empty set. One question though how does the
empty set itself arise.
Arithmetic is equivalent to finite set theory (hereditary finite set
theory,
Stephen -- I like how he derives the natural numbers from some basic set
operations on an empty set. One question though how does the empty set
itself arise. While an empty set contains; it is not the same thing as
nothing. It is a container; it envelopes, contains, encompasses. Even if
something
On 11 Jan 2014, at 16:06, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com
wrote:
Dear Friends,
I highly recommend Louis H. Kauffman's new blog. His latest post
speaks to the Becoming interpretation of mathematics that I
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:43 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 11 Jan 2014, at 16:06, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Stephen Paul King
stephe...@provensecure.com wrote:
Dear Friends,
I highly recommend Louis H. Kauffman's new blog. His
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Stephen Paul King
stephe...@provensecure.com wrote:
Dear Friends,
I highly recommend Louis H. Kauffman's new blog. His latest post speaks
to the Becoming interpretation of mathematics that I advocate:
By the way
2014/1/11, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Stephen Paul King
stephe...@provensecure.com wrote:
Dear Friends,
I highly recommend Louis H. Kauffman's new blog. His latest post speaks
to the Becoming interpretation of
The mathematical entity GG wraps right around itself. Just so does our
language and apparent existence wrap around itself and give us the
possibility that we are ‘nothing more’ than our own description of our own
description, a kind of illusion that generates its own illusion.
Lovely! The sort
Note however that Kauffman does not go into axioms involved for set theory,
whichever version he is referencing I can't make out, and steps to the side
of that. The article would loose a bit of its metaphorical slickness if he
had, I'd guess... PGC
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:45 PM, LizR
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