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>From: petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Ahah! Behold the prime in the quark ! ( was Re: ai )
Keywords: ai,realism,Goedel,platonism
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Date: 7 Apr 92 00:41:15 GMT
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 Mr Silber states:
> Ahah! Your response goes to my point about what mathematical realists
> must prove, viz. you assert the primacy of the existence
> of mathematical objects, their primacy over all other domains including
> the "physical", it remains only for some ambitious mathematician/cosmologist
> to probe deeply enough into a quark to find a prime number !!!!!!!
A prime number of what?
Is zero a physical entity?
Where do you find negative number?
If we discovered math concepts, from where in the universe of matter,
did we discover them.  In fact without the concepts of the mind, how
would the universe be knowable? Would it even exist?

Regards
Wayne Peterson

"Who heard the Big Bang?" 


