Jerry Monaco quoted Heidegger:
> "How does the mathematical, according to its own inner drive, move
> toward an ascent to a metaphysical determination of Dasein? We can
> abridge the question as follows: In what way does modern metaphysics
> arise out of the spirit of the mathematical? It is already obvious
> from the form of the question that mathematics could not become the
> standard of philosophy, as if mathematical methods were only
> appropriately generalized and then transferred to philosophy.
>
> "Rather, modern natural science, modern mathematics, and modern
> metaphysics sprang from the same root of the mathematical in the wider
> sense. Because metaphysics of these three, reaches farthest - to what
> is, in totality - and because at the same time it also reaches deepest
> toward the being of what is as such, therefore it is precisely
> metaphysics which must dig down to the bedrock of its mathematical
> base and ground."
This isn't nonsense. An argument by Whitehead explaining why "logic presupposes metaphysics" is available here: <http:// archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pkt/2000m03/msg00238.htm>.
Heidegger, by the way, is here repeating claims of Husserl.
Ted