>>> seamus2001 at home.com 06/12/01 10:24AM >>>
> 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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Mathematics is no more artificial than english or latin. I would
suggest a reading of some of Kleene's work that might make one think a
little more about the ease with which the third sentence flows from
many of our lips.
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CB: Engels is always on about the material basis for mathematics.