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beckychandler · F
Unless you are a nominalist, it is a real thing.
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@beckychandler I´m not a nominalist, but...
A material "thing"?
A material "thing"?
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@beckychandler Sorry, Becky if I´m wrong.
But seems, only seems, that your assertion comes from some kind of armchair philosophy and not from Math.
Nor from Science.
Scholastics anyone?
But seems, only seems, that your assertion comes from some kind of armchair philosophy and not from Math.
Nor from Science.
Scholastics anyone?
beckychandler · F
@CharlieZ William of Occam's idea plagues us today. Everything is just a name. If the government chooses to print paper (or digits) and call it money --well, it is money. If Sally decides to called herself a man, well by God she is a man. Nothing is real.
I am the realist.
I am the realist.