Psy-Kosh comments on Supernatural Math - Less Wrong

1 Post author: saturn 19 May 2009 11:31AM

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 19 May 2009 11:05:07PM 1 point [-]

substitution, association, etc work? Amazing!

Stuff is consistent, we never have a true contradiction, never have A AND NOT A? incredible!

That's the sense in which I'd say math is "real"... the reality is tied to the fact that stuff sure seems to actually be consistent. I can't really conceive of what it would mean for that not to be so, but still, it seems like there's something I'm confused about here.

Comment author: Jack 19 May 2009 11:46:50PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I'm beginning to think this discussion could use a domain expert, not to tell us the answer but to clarify the issues. Anyone know someone who works in Philosophy of Math?