SilasBarta comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 01 September 2010 10:44:31PM *  2 points [-]

Grab the popcorn! Landsburg and I go at it again! (See also Previous Landsburg LW flamewar.)

This time, you get to see Landsburg:

  • attempt to prove the existence of the natural numbers while explicitly dismissing the relevance of what sense he's using "existence" to mean!
  • use formal definitions to make claims about the informal meanings of the terms!
  • claim that Peano arithmetic exists "because you can see the marks on paper" (guess it's not a platonic object anymore...)!

(Sorry, XiXiDu, I'll reply to you on his blog if my posting privileges stay up long enough ... for now, I would agree with what you said, but am not making that point in the discussion.)

Comment author: DanielVarga 02 September 2010 12:30:31AM 3 points [-]

Wow, a debate where the most reasonable-sounding person is a sysop of Conservapedia. :)

Comment author: SilasBarta 02 September 2010 04:55:52AM 0 points [-]

Who?

Comment author: DanielVarga 02 September 2010 10:18:49AM *  1 point [-]

Roger Schlafly. Or Roger Schlafly, if you prefer that. His blog is Singular Values. His whole family is full of very interesting people.