Re: numbers?

2010-08-05 Thread John Mikes
I am not sure whether I reply to Brian, or to Bruno? there are remarks on *my texts to Brian* without marking the replier and at the end it reads: * Bruno* with no further ado. Never mind, I want to be short. ...Rectangles are not found in nature and not are numbers; both are abstractions of

Re: numbers?

2010-08-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Aug 2010, at 01:18, Brian Tenneson wrote: Hmm... Lawvere has tried to build an all encompassing universal mathematical structure, but he failed. It was an interesting failure as he discovered the notion of topos, (discovered also independently by Groethendieck) which is more a

RE: 3-Brain - 1-Mind?

2010-08-05 Thread Stephen P. King
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