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...we should take some pains to distinguish constructivism from intuitionism. As I've suggested, I don't see how constructivism is committed to finiti...

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...we should take some pains to distinguish constructivism from intuitionism. As I've suggested, I don't see how constructivism is committed to finiti...

Nor am I, yet the article rang true. Nos' reaction will be more about Nos than about 'merica.

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I'm flummoxed that Wittgenstein's argument might be so artless. And so, I'm asking for something more. So we have him baulking at the the diagonal and...

Yeah, I noticed that.

So much the better for logic, then.

Evolution does not have a goal.

Perhaps - but it is so difficult to articulate.

But you can start anywhere... and you get the same number.

But one of the things we do, is to talk. And we can talk about our talk. Every few years I set up a forum game in which players take it in turns to ad...

Hm. We can choose to include or exclude whichever laws of logic we like, so long as we live with the consequences. Hence, Well, that is up to you. If ...

What?

I've pretty much given up on Harry. Too hard to make sense of his posts.

Their rejection of abstract entities remains unexplained - an intuition. I hope I explained - in outline at least - that abstract entities come form o...

Yep.

Thanks. Yep.

Thank you. I'm picturing this as direction of fit, as in Anscombe. That the number of things in the box is 3 is something we do; the direction of fit ...

For @"NOS4A2": We Are Living in a Failed State

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Folk seem to be missing the point: why does Wittgenstein's constructivism lead to finitism?

Cheers. Reading.

Charity.

This... https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/12/1/1/2823712 ?

But hence the remainder of my post...

Cheers. And my apologies for baiting you with the OP. I needed a mathematician who might disagree with a constructivist approach to mathematics; the r...

From The Stanford article: Why finite sets? This seems an idiomatic use; and I;m not sure if it comes from Wittgenstein or Rodych Well, yes - if one a...

No, it doesn't. It doesn't refer to anything.

I've sympathy for that. I think it more like doing proper grammar than like metal detecting.

So you are well placed to help me. Would you be able to take a look at 2.2 Wittgenstein’s Intermediate Finitism? Can you follow the discussion of exte...

Yes, that. And mathematical Platonism is wrong.

That's not what I'm after here. What you have constructed is a contradiction; they can't both claim to be adding in the way we do and that 2+2=5; we s...

Yeah, but "StreetlightX" refers to StreetlightX in a way that "1" does not refer to 1. That is, whole there (presumably) is a StreetlightX, there is n...

Not this time. Trying to read Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics but I'm stuck on the way Rodych uses intension and extension. So the extension ...

Maybe. It comes from Wittgenstein. Do you think him naive? This thread is a branch from @"Sam26"'s Summary of the Tractatus.

Some one else put it there.

If set the task of describing the motion of drops of water on a window pane, we might well make use of 1+1=1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAvLtVXz...

You can get pills for that.

As do garbagemen.

No, they aren't.

Yeah, i read it. It is just an assertion. So it's of no use.

OK. I'll have a think about an appropriate thread; perhaps a more general question about mathematical extension.

You do understand that Wittgenstein overwhelmingly rejected Platonism...? (I know I will regret asking).

Is it of interest to you? I'm no mathematician; but of course I have opinions. Seems to me that mathematics is a built thing. So in that regard I'm wi...

That's good. I was worried you might realise he was a finitist, even as you seem to be, and come back with something cogent.

Not quite. I'm saying that one might do either, that the choice of to flip or stand is not rational. The body of the thesis was an explanation of how ...

Seems to be a theme here this morning. My Master's thesis was about organisational decision making; it made the obvious observation that organisations...

The trouble I have with this excellent analysis is that I'm not at al sure what a concept is. So I might just note that concepts, if they are anything...

Sure, you could find a solution - but would it be the right one? Would it set out what we ought to do? If you agree with the mooted solution, you woul...