John, Kirsti, List
(This is a technical post wrt to the role of possibility and actuality in the
exact abductive logic of organic mathematics.)
I would just add an extremely important fact about the relationship between
possibility and actuality in the chemical sciences. In the modern era, the
Janos and Kirsti,
I have been tied up with some deadlines, which prevented me from
responding to the many issues in these threads. I hope to catch up
later this week. But your recent notes raise two important issues.
Kirsti
I wonder why science(s) seems to be left out of the context
in the
John S., List
You wrote:
"Logic allows a variable x in ∃x to refer to refer to anything
mathematical. That implies that any x that refers to anything
in pure mathematics can be said to "exist" in some sense. "
Predicate logic allows you to write ∃x.P(x) for variable x and predicate