I continue to be confused about whether/when you're allowed to draw causal arrows from mathematical to physical facts.
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@MemberOfSpecies Oh… weird… “Cause” seems an exceptionally vague and problematic notion, but fwiw on the whole I’d say that isn’t causal.
@Meaningness I guess I'm trying to figure out whether there's a principled reason for saying such things aren't causal.
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@Meaningness Or if it's just a matter of "physical causes are real and mathematical causes aren't real because I defined causes that way". -
@MemberOfSpecies I’m not endorsing the possible-worlds interpretation of causality; I think it’s unworkable; but it does give an explanation
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@MemberOfSpecies Main intuition of “cause” is counterfactuals, and there isn’t a possible world in which 5x5!=25 -
@Meaningness "If 5x5 had been 26, this 5x5 room would have been 26 square meters" doesn't make zero sense to me. - 4 more replies
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