On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:40 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/30/2013 4:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > In fact, materialism cannot explain matter, either. Worst, it avoids > trying to explain it at the start. > > > It's not worse, it's logic. Whatever is taken as fundamental in a theory > is not something explained in the theory. Your theory takes numbers and > arithmetic for granted. > > It is logical in the case of arithmetical realism to assume numbers are fundamental because it is provable that the numbers cannot be explained in terms of anything simpler, but there is no known proof (or even an argument offered by materialists) that matter cannot be explained in terms of something simpler. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
