In any case, a miner should have a philosophy of mining. Is the life of the miner a good one for me, and indeed for any person? What are the internal and external goods (and evils) of the activity? What is it to mine well?
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Right! And even more narrowly, what “stuff” should I be trying to prove? Should I be mining coal, or gold?
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Ok but like are all the numbers in a box somewhere or are they written on the fabric of the universe in black flame???
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I have written the numbers that were in the world of Forms and which you were probably saving for theorems Forgive me they were discoverable so abstract and so cold
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He surely means "ontology" though
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Not so clear from the responses! That said imo it’s pretty reasonable for mathematicians to think about the ontology of math.
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Isn't that quoted tweet actually a (philosophy of)^2 mathematics?
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(Philosophy of) is definitely a monad.
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in the same way that a miner not caring if their rocks are being used for catapults is (political) philosophy, so is this; making math "aphilosophical" is implicitly a liberal position that in reality constitutes a really strong philosophical statement, imo
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To misquote Keynes: Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct philosopher.
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