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What about the following sentence? "At no point do we or should we say, `Now that we have defined an abstract group, let's assume they exist'. Either we can de
by h_r 15y ago
What about the following sentence?
"At no point do we or should we say, `Now that we have defined an abstract group, let's assume they exist'. Either we can demonstrate they exist by constructing some, or the theory becomes vacuous."
Doesn't that imply constructivism?
- andrewcooke 15y agowell, yes, i think the article as a whole is heading in that direction. all i meant was that it doesn't get into any details - it wasn't meant as criticism, i was just trying to explain that it stopped before that point.