(2024-10-15, 07:45 PM)Max_B Wrote: I'm no philosopher... but I did watch it... and enjoyed the exchange... (but thought Oppy won - if I understand the explanation)
but in your post, when you say "...the fact that the Universals of Math & Logic are mental entities, not physical ones."
I don't understand how people can make a cut through experience, which slices experience neatly in two, separating it into mental vs physical.
I just meant that mathematics and its attendant proofs, and logic with its fallacies/syllogisms/etc, are based on mental activity.
There can be some physical correlation in brains, but I don't think there is an exact structure that would intrinsically correspond to the Universals of Math & Logic?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell