[FOM] AXIOM SCHEMATA

Tue Jul 13 08:53:45 EDT 2004



 John Corcoran:
> PLATONISM IN MATHEMATICS:  To me a Platonism . with respect to
> mathematical concepts . seems to be obvious and its rejection to
border
> on feeble-mindedness. - Kurt Gödel 1975, BSL 2004.  It is the merest
> truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that
mathematics
> is a human invention. - Percy Bridgman 1946, Kline 1980, 325.

    The above two views seem to me compatible.

Charlie Silver