> 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.
What I mean is this: is "2+2=4" true or false? If it is true, is it a "culturally-given truth"? If you can find a way to make it false, show it to me.
You see, I'm a terribly simple-minded philosopher in the end.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________ When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit, 'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more yet; Nor ever ever shall, until that I die, For the longer I live the more fool am I. -- Wit and Mirth, an Antidote against Melancholy (1684)