Re: Debunking simplistic physicalism
- From: Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:48:49 GMT
Allan C Cybulskie <allan_c_cybulskie@xxxxxxxx> writes:
On Sep 8, 2:59 pm, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm sorry - but you sound like Hardy. The relationship between
mathematics and reality explains why we choose some mathematical
axioms, and reject others. The link to the world is the explanation
for the practical utility of mathematics.
It's accidental. No mathematician, formulating an interesting
mathematical theory, stops to think "I wonder what this would mean for
physics".
Correct. However, it is true that some mathematics is invented to
address a problem from physics. Yet even in that case, it does not
follow that the mathematics is physical.
.
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