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You're correct to say that mathematics is not empirical, but why you think that somehow invalidates it is obscure. Judging by your last paragraph, your position
by sethrin 10y ago
You're correct to say that mathematics is not empirical, but why you think that somehow invalidates it is obscure. Judging by your last paragraph, your position is more informed by mysticism than a knowledge of epistemology. Mathematics may not be "real" but the truths it produces are the product of inarguable logic -- it is because it does not depend on the real world that we can say that mathematics is 'touching immortality'.
- lngnmn 10y ago> it is because it does not depend on the real world Nothing does not depend on the real world, to begin with. Especially, products of the mind conditioned by senses and a language.
- sethrin 10y agoPhilosphically this is a valid position. Similarly with e.g. nihilism. Practically, there is such thing as an abstract concept, and your attempting to argue otherwise is sophomoric.