From: Steve Peterson (speterson@fast.net)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 15:45:04 BST
>>> Steve: More multiple choice...
>>>
>>> Would you call mathematics...
>>> A. a stable pattern of inorganic value (like substance)
>>> B. an intellectual pattern
>>> C. still a platypus under the evolutionary hierarchy
>>> D. "Donnie, you're out of your element."
>>
>> I would say that the mathematics that we know consists of static
>> patterns of intellectual value
>
> patterns patters patterns - thats all there is (inclusive of maths)
>
> will someone please expand all of the commonly used forum abreviations - eg:
> MQ, DQ, MMQ, MDQ, MOQ.. qv ?
>
> " As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
> and
> as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
> - your friend and mine, A. Einstein
>
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I think what I was trying to ask was, "what kind of a thing is mathematics?"
and I take it from some recent postings that this is an inappropriate
question. We don't categorize "things" as organic, biological, social, and
intellectual, but only patterns of morality? (If to hold that 1+1=2 is an
ethic, then it would be immoral for a society to declare that 1+1 shall be
5, so it would be an intellectual ethic.)
I remember reading somewhere that Pirsig called material substances as
stable patterns of inorganic value, and that made me want to categorize
other parts of reality.
Would it be correct to consider Natural Law and inorganic morality as the
same thing? (By Natural Law I don't mean physical laws but the the Law to
which they point.)
Steve
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