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 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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I think that is the claim. I am dubious of it but have no right to be because I don't understand maths well enough.
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The core point I'm making is that even if they did "exist," there's no reason to not posit that they exist as part of the physical world.
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Even if they have no materiality? I am hoping James is about to explain this in terms I can understand.
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There are multiple ontological ways for things to exist. Mass "exists" as a property, for instance, even though it's just a description.
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What I see in args using platonism to argue for dualism is an attempt to bait and switch between these different types of "existence"
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Well, ideas and concepts are on a different plane to brains which come up with them & environments which provide them but so what?
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