Comment author:Chris_Pine
11 January 2008 04:05:42PM
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I don't see how Pennyology proves your point: a pennyologist *discovers* that there's an O on the front and an O on the back. Perhaps he *invents* meaning to attach to this fact, but the fact was first discovered.
Or is that what you were saying: that we discover mathematical facts, but in fact what we call "mathematics" is the invention of *meaning* that we attach to certain favored facts?
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I don't see how Pennyology proves your point: a pennyologist *discovers* that there's an O on the front and an O on the back. Perhaps he *invents* meaning to attach to this fact, but the fact was first discovered.
Or is that what you were saying: that we discover mathematical facts, but in fact what we call "mathematics" is the invention of *meaning* that we attach to certain favored facts?