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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Putnam on Penrose
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 21:12:53 GMT
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In article <3bb2km$o1c@mp.cs.niu.edu>, Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
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>
>If Penrose were to make that claim, it would be very foolish of him.
>It would deny that physical intuition about space was the source of
>any of our ideas of geometry, complex numbers, and calculus.
>
Putting aside your value judgment, such claim and the consequences you state
are consistent with a Platonic view of mathematics. Penrose is an unrepentant
platonist.

Andrzej
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