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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Replying to @Intrinsic29
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @Intrinsic29
But I'm not sure exactly why this is significant.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @Intrinsic29
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @Intrinsic29 @HPluckrose
At least until someone tries to argue that they cash out substance dualism.
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Replying to @Intrinsic29
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @Intrinsic29 @HPluckrose
Non physicalists/dualists posit that some other realm is needed beyond the physical to explain things but they never/can't define that world
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Yes, that's what I'm getting. It's mysterious apparently. I don't know that it isn't & that there isn't something that needs explaining.
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