Timeline for Can we compare the believe that mathematics refers to an objective reality with the believe in god(s)?
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| Apr 24, 2018 at 9:32 | vote | accept | Deschele Schilder | ||
| Apr 24, 2018 at 9:32 | comment | added | Deschele Schilder | -Maybe standing on a stationary point on a manifold let you see the beauty of your wife (assuming you're married)! And that surely has grandeur! | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 9:28 | vote | accept | Deschele Schilder | ||
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| Feb 15, 2017 at 3:43 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @descheleschilder I've had a lot of fun with models built around stationary points on differentiable manifolds which suggest some rather interesting results about how to live your life if you believe you exist on such a manifold. And I'd highly recommend exploring "reverse mathematics," which strives to dig towards the smallest assumptions you can make. Once you get down to the point where mathematics is barely standing up on its own feet, it starts to pick up an interesting beauty. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 0:31 | comment | added | Deschele Schilder | I like your answer though I don't think you can divine an argument (I know it's just an example) that the properties of mathematics encourage kindness (the properties of mathematics encourage quite the opposite in my experience) and neither would mathematical terminology will make the atheist doubt his case. By the way, empiricism is a sub-set of realism. If you say that your wife is beautiful, then that's objectively real for you. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 20:29 | history | answered | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |