[ExI] The "Unreasonable" Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

[Jef Allbright]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> At 02:00 PM 9/27/2008 +1000, Stathis wrote:
>
>> Logical positivism also allows analytic truths as valid. It dismisses
>> metaphysics as nonsense - "not even wrong"
>
> And one of its basic errors was not grasping that it was itself a
> metaphysical position.

An unavoidable trap for any who would persist in their expectation of
establishing "Truth", as if from some meta point of view outside the
system, rather than seeking to discover structures of increasing
coherence over increasing context, subject to selection by (assumed)
"reality."

- Jef