It is, is it? I get lost when Christian takes his Platonism into the realms of maths. Sometimes, I think that's why he does it. ;-)
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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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I don't think so. Math is just used to create internally coherent models of the world. The interest in args over platonism are lost on me
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At least until someone tries to argue that they cash out substance dualism.
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