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 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.
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@MemberOfSpecies but in any case, in the standard (Kripke) formulation, all mathematical facts are the same in all possible worlds. -
@Meaningness This feels like sweeping the problem under the rug. We have uncertainty about mathematical facts with conditional structure. - 2 more replies
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@MemberOfSpecies Yeees… but it may only sound like it makes some sense due to fitting an often-valid syntactic pattern…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MemberOfSpecies so if you are looking for a principle to exclude mathematical causes, there’s one. Pearl works in this framework also.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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