Rob Schaap on Foucault

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Mon Jun 11 21:42:56 PDT 2001


On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:45:24 -0500 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> Two is what we mean by 1+1. As soon as we take it out of the realm of
> pure mathematics it isn't exactly true.

Exactly. Mathematics is an artificial language. Its propositions are true, absolutely true on a strictly logical level. Hence, we have truth - calculations that are absolutely objective.

ken



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