Re: Numbers and sets

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From: Stephen Grossman
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:12

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In article <1992Dec28.155555.21505@guinness.idbsu.edu>, holmes@opal.idbsu.edu 
(Randall Holmes) writes:
>In article <Bzsrvt.167@umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
>>    Is there a relationship between sets and Plato's Forms?

Plato's Forms were ideal exemplars of
>mundane objects; sets do not have this character (the set of all
>natural numbers is not a perfect natural number).  

    Perhaps I should have asked about Kantian, subjective forms. I am starting 
"Plato, Kant and Aristotle in Math" by Glenn Marcus (2nd Renaissance Books,
1991, audio) and should have some wisdom on math soon.
    Marcus says scientists (excepting computer scientists w/info theory) use
only pre-20th century math and quotes a leading mathematician on the 
impracticality of math. Comments?
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	"In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
                                                              AYN RAND
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Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASS.EDU>
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