Stripped to its bare bones, Platonism is the idea that the structure of the universe is (metaphysically) independent of and precedes (logically) the universe. Why are people (e.g. Ravi and that guy who denies morality while simultaneously railing against antihumanism) so horrified by this idea? It's weird.
--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Review of Badiou's Number and Numbers
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 7:04 PM
>
> > A little late, but...
> >
> > This idea was destroyed by Goedel, or platonism was
> destroyed by Goedel? Wasn't Goedel a platonist himself?
>
> Yep. There was a reason that thread ended:
>
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20090727/010653.html
>
> The Holt article is a lot of fun BTW. I think you'd
> enjoy it.
>
> Michael
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