Damn you, Burnham. Now I'm reading 'Mathematical Platonism & refutations of it for dummies.'
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Basically I'm trying to redpill you.
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Wonderful.;-) You're not terribly clear on the subject & it's the only time you get irascible. Here, have a kitten.pic.twitter.com/c7EcwYmNzi
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Mathematical platonism is just a semantic mess over the definition of terms like "exists" imo. It's largely irrelevant to physicalism.
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I saw you say this. I've had trouble getting to what the claim actually is but am not sure if that's coz it is vague or coz I can't maths.
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I'm no math expert either ftr.
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I think it's because it's intentionally vague.Mathematical concepts "existing" outside of minds can mean a scope of different precise things
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It seems that they work and can be tested and shown to work without actually corresponding to any physical reality & this is significant?
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But I'm not sure exactly why this is significant.
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I don't think it really is and I'm only chiming in on it because it's being used to argue against physicalism.
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Because although it's true that the concepts don't exist in genes or the environment, does this tell us anything except that concepts don't?
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