James Franklin at Aeon
"To the question: ‘Is mathematics about something?’ there are two answers: ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Both are profoundly unsatisfying.
...
"Nominalists and Platonists have fought each other to a standstill, each convincingly revealing the fatal flaws in their opponents’ views, each unable to establish their own position. Let’s start again."
(via Great Conversation Reading Group)
#mathematics
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment