I continue to be confused about whether/when you're allowed to draw causal arrows from mathematical to physical facts.
@MemberOfSpecies Oh… weird… “Cause” seems an exceptionally vague and problematic notion, but fwiw on the whole I’d say that isn’t causal.
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@Meaningness I guess I'm trying to figure out whether there's a principled reason for saying such things aren't causal. -
@MemberOfSpecies Main intuition of “cause” is counterfactuals, and there isn’t a possible world in which 5x5!=25 - 10 more replies
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