tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3736365491401043672.post1320193919773485886..comments2024-01-16T09:31:45.073-04:00Comments on Anderson Brown's Philosophy Blog: Wittgenstein and Aristotle?Anderson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18358008464457746997noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3736365491401043672.post-2486511242984092662011-02-08T09:47:25.782-04:002011-02-08T09:47:25.782-04:001) Hello Paul. I believe it's "The angle...1) Hello Paul. I believe it's "The angle of the dangle is increased by the heat of the meat," if I am not mistaken.<br />2) Christopher, I very much agree, see the post on Plato's metaphysics and the problem of rationality.Anderson Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18358008464457746997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3736365491401043672.post-18123263626606127932011-02-07T21:48:14.879-04:002011-02-07T21:48:14.879-04:00Might there be something like an experiential argu...Might there be something like an experiential argument for Platonism, at least as to mathematical phenomena? <br /><br />Mathematicians (with rare exceptions such as Brouwer) certainly believe that they are discovering facts that have been waiting for them. This has been their experience from Pythagoras to Mandelbrot. <br /><br />Heinrich Hertz put it well. "One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than we originally put into them."<br /><br />Who was Hertz that we should pay heed to his views on math? A physicist who obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1880, and whose work helped refine the mathematical theory of electromagnetism developed before him by Faraday and Maxwell. He earned his bones in terms of the relationship between physical reality and abstract formulae employed to describe it. If he believed (as have many others of equal eminence) that the formulae have an independent sort of existence, this isn't testimony that those of us who have shown less facility in their use than he should take lightly!Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17755575167245729981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3736365491401043672.post-36644962032645214462011-02-06T18:22:46.484-04:002011-02-06T18:22:46.484-04:00Do That Stuff AHHHHH Do That Stuff The angle o...Do That Stuff AHHHHH Do That Stuff The angle of the dangle is increased by the heat of the beatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com