in terms of setting up coherent number systems with axioms and what follow on from the axioms and suchlike That, I think, would be really interesting to see... or at least to get someone to explain the just of.
But, I don't know. (And it's possible I really don't know what I'm talking about.) It's always seemed to me that they can show that 2 and 2 is 4, in a variety of creative ways, but that the whole why issue is caught up in the way the universe works.
And who says the universe has to be coherent, when you get down to it, except for us?
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Date: 2003-08-13 11:34 am (UTC)That, I think, would be really interesting to see... or at least to get someone to explain the just of.
But, I don't know. (And it's possible I really don't know what I'm talking about.) It's always seemed to me that they can show that 2 and 2 is 4, in a variety of creative ways, but that the whole why issue is caught up in the way the universe works.
And who says the universe has to be coherent, when you get down to it, except for us?