Re: Platonism and Progress in Philosophy
Jon Awbrey <[email protected]>
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Re: Charles Silver @ http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2010-April/014628.html Those of us who consider logic to be a normative science and natural philosophy to be part of philosophy will shy away from pontificating infallible lines of demarcation here, but I might point to Peirce's various nunciations of the pragmatic maxim and his highlighting the role of hypostatic abstraction in mathematics as genuine advances that are very relevant to our immediate question. Well, I might if you gave me just a tad more than a hundred years ... Cf. http://knol.google.com/k/pragmatic-maxim Cf. http://mywikibiz.com/Hypostatic_abstraction Jon Awbrey -- inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey knol: http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3fkwvf69kridz/1 oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey