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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: Private lives of ideal forms and formulas
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Date: 16 Jan 92 19:27:03 GMT
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 Well, if platonism were correct and ideal forms and formulas
 had a life of their own quite apart from the dust and the seasons of
 the material world, THEN one might ask as to the habits and private
 lives of the platonic forms.  Do they get together and chew the fat
 over cups of abstract coffee? Have all the theorems provable within
 every axiomatic system always been proved ( humans only discovering
 the proofs later) ?  In view of what we can see of the physical world,
 e.g. that it evolves, it would seem that NOT-all the consequences of all
 the axiomatic ideals were , in fact, always "there"; they must
 have "come into existence" through some process involving INTERACTION
 of the "ideals" over time (oops, one said "time", so one has trod the
 grounding of the material world, the "ideals" MUST depend upon
 the evolution of the material world for their own existence !)


