I think you've rather succinctly said some thing I was trying to get at :
maths is more absolute and therefore less 'real', than 'reality'. Thus, for
example, a circular thing is 'never' a perfect circle. Only a perfect circle
manages this.
cheers,
ppl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ghitus" <ghitus@libero.it>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 10 October 2000 20:53
Subject: Re: MD 1+1=2
> Ed, Sasu, David, Peter, and all
>
>
> > If S=0.999..., then we can say 10S=9.999..., and if we subtract the
former
> > from the latter we obtain 9S=9, which means S=1.
>
>
> hmmm.... IMO if we subtract the former from the latter we get:
>
> 9.999... - 0.999... = 9.000...
>
> and I'm not sure we can say it's exactly like 9.
>
>
> This aside, I would like to say I hope it's clear to all that arithmetic
is
> abstract... it's the most abstract science. All the mathematicians know it
> very well. No serious scientist or philosopher will ever say that
arithmetic
> is a concrete reality.
>
> This is the point of view in a SOM. I think that in a MOQ we should say
that
> all abstractions are real, as intellectual static patterns of quality.
Real,
> just like the rocks, the cells and the nations. And all that is real, in
the
> precise moment we talk about it, is an intellectual static pattern of
> quality. So it's not very amusing to attack the "truth" of arithmetic, as
> the SOM's and MOQ's viewpoints are similar. It's better to attack the
> "truths" of physics: platypi like the gravitation, the big bang, the light
> speed and so on.
>
> ghitus
>
>
>
>
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