TheAncientGeek comments on Excluding the Supernatural - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 September 2008 12:12AM

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Comment author: Kenny 22 May 2013 12:01:16PM 1 point [-]

Funny that you use mathematics as an analogy to something being argued as irreducible, as mathematics is all reducible to fundamentally simple components. And one could even argue that mathematics is 'reducible' to simple physical systems; it's not like you're claiming that every other non-ontologically-fundamental concept or category is Platonically supernatural. What makes the patterns of mathematics special?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 June 2016 10:19:10AM 3 points [-]

Mathematics doesn't escape the Munchausen Trilemma...how do you justify your axioms?