I am still wading through this chap's output, trying to apply my feeble mind to it... I figure I should given that I advertise under the title "Plato's Beard". But...
> Wow. Absolutely god dmaned right. But Badiou my dear, never get out of
> the boat, or you might get eaten by tigers...
>
> Here is the problem with the deep platonism of this idea. Crudely put
> it was destroyed by Goedel's dual theorems on consistancy and
> completeness.
I am not sure I agree, any more than those who criticise Penrose's use of Gödel's theorem(s) do with that. More on that later... in the meantime, if anyone wants a peek at Number and Numbers:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6208362/Allain-Badiou-Number-and-Numbers
and if you do not like to sign up for stuff, http://bugmenot.com/
--ravi
-- Anyone who takes an effort to intellectually challenge the status quo and established habits is infinitely more venerable than hacks defending that status quo and established habits, regardless of the truth function of their propositions. -- W.Sokolowski