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Subject: Re: math, is it just physics?
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From: Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:57:54 -0800
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On 01/30/2025 06:55 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 01/29/2025 02:46 AM, joes wrote:
>> Am Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:48:47 +0100 schrieb WM:
>>> On 28.01.2025 21:56, sobriquet wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So in a way one could claim that concepts like integers and their
>>>> properties and relationships can be more or less empirically observed
>>>> in the behavior and properties of things like elementary particles such
>>>> as electrons or fields.
>>> Or bricks, marbles, people etc. The natural numbers have been abstracted
>>> from reality. The laws like "the existence of n implies the existence of
>>> n+1" were so evident, that no axioms appeared necessary before Dedekind,
>>> Peano, Schmidt etc. Only Cantor's assumption of an actual set with |ℕ|
>>> being a fixed quantity greater than all numbers is not abstracted from
>>> reality.
>> Oh PLEASE show me something physically infinite.
>>
>
> 0 m/s = ? s/m, ..., ?
>
>


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