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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Putnam reviews Penrose.
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In article <3ts3kf$aa3@netnews.upenn.edu>,
Matthew P Wiener <weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu> wrote:
>Refering to human phenomena in terms of humans is not anthropomorphic,
>nor is it circular.

These are also phenomena of people who were born before 1990, so perhaps we
should define "seeing mathematical truths" as "the end of the process of human
mathematicians born before 1990 publishing their results in reputable
journals" (paraphrasing; I don't have the original at hand).

Is this what you call "abstract thinking"?

-- 
<J Q B>

