From: Scott Roberts (jse885@localnet.com)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2005 - 18:29:21 GMT
Mark,
Looking back I see two posts, one 11/16 and one 11/18 that refer to the
square root of two business and the empirical roots of mathematics. I
responded to the lengthier 11/16 post (on the 17th), but not the 11/18 one,
and I think I didn't because I didn't see anything there that wasn't just a
restatement of what you said in the 11/16 post, nor did it respond to what I
said in my 11/17 response to the 11/16 post. If there is something that you
think I overlooked, by all means, let me know, (Just to confuse things,
there is another 11/18 post of yours in the Empiricism thread that I did
respond to, but it was not about mathematics).
- Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Steven Heyman" <markheyman@infoproconsulting.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: MD Pure experience and the Kantian problematic
Hi Scott,
I'm interested in this one point...
On 8 Feb 2005 at 21:33, Scott Roberts wrote:
Scott:
When it [what Scott believes to be a fuzzy understanding of the word
'empirical'] results in someone saying that we know empirically that
the square root of two has no rational solution, or that we know
empirically that what mystics experience is an "undifferentiated
aesthetic continuum", then the word "empirical" has lost all value.
msh says:
I thought I made a pretty good case for the empirical foundations of
mathematics, which you may or may not remember. I agree with you on
clause 2, above, but think math is quite firmly rooted in our
empirical "grasp" of the world.
Should I state my case again, or can you find it in your records or
in the archive? I'm pretty sure you never responded to it (nor has
anyone else), but I could be wrong, obviously. I'd be interested to
know what you think.
Best,
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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