Math and Religion (or….math is religion)

So long as it is founded on assumption (read “axiom”) as opposed to model construction (see Skolem’s work), math is just religion….and religion is no more than a venue for working out who should be in charge, who should prosper economically, who should have access to resources, who should be allowed to publish, etc.

Read…

https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/HowManyAngels/Cantor/Cantor.html

…and for those who think “that time has passed” I recommend you take notice of works like “Subject with No Object” by J. P. Burgess. Platonism (read “religion”), and a sense of the need to defend it, is alive and well in the mathematical community.

You might call me an anti-realist deconstructionist, a pantheist, monist, atheist, amateur …or any other epithet you like. Better pull up the ladder, Mr. Wittgenstein, the Siths are about to attack.

“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.” https://www.starwars.com/news/8-great-obi-wan-kenobi-quotes

Published by Bob H

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