Submitted by BernardJOrtcutt t3_y6c1wy in philosophy
Capital_Net_6438 t1_itbh3zt wrote
Reply to comment by Gentlerwiserfree in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | October 17, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
It seems like you are missing the thrust of the number 5 example. Here goes again. Possible: math professors get together to discuss (er) math. Possible: after much deliberation, math professors announce that 5 is not a number. They’ve recalculated, so to speak.
Do you agree the above are possible? So far we’re just talking people doing things of varying degrees of normalcy and weirdness.
Then enters philosophy: how should I as a person who strives to be cognitively responsible, respond? I assume I can’t just waive it out of hand. A lot of weird stuff has been discovered. Allegedly, a spatially located object could be neither in location A, nor B, nor… That’s a thing right? I mean if that weren’t already a thing and physicists announced it tomorrow, I’d say: what the what. Pass the joint, physicists.
Again: what mathematicians say don’t make it so it not so.
Gentlerwiserfree t1_itblnle wrote
Those aren’t possible.
You have no understanding of math or science.
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