[lbo-talk] The Ontology of Two Chairs (was Reich on sex & religion)

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Thu Dec 30 20:48:04 PST 2004


Jon Johanning wrote:


> As for numbers, are you claiming that the truths of mathematics are
> related somehow to human practice, experience, and temporality? I'd
> like to see a defense of that position. I'd also like to see where
> Rorty takes that position.

It's hard to know what you mean by "truths of mathematics." If these truths include the entities that we call numbers and that we claim to be able to manipulateby analogy with how we manipulate-numbers-as finite-quantities, then certainly these truths are culturally given.

There has been lots of work done on this: Jacob Klein, Cassirer, Spengler are a few names that come to mind.

Joanna



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