Category: Proof
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Intuitionism (Constructivism) vs. Logicism vs. Platonism.
Does infinity exist? Is the whole larger than the parts? Are all the numbers either negative, positive or zero? Phenomenally simple questions. With no definite answer! Is everything “out there” for us to discover? (Platonism) Is everything we can “write on paper” true? (Logicism) Or only the things we can construct do exist? (Intuitionism/ Constructivism)…
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Art Therapy: No more "proof" needed!
An institution in the UK is providing children with leuchemia with what is known as "art therapy". Through art, children with this critical illness are able to forget their problems and feel good. "As if you can do anything" as our little friend says in the relative video on BBC. [see BBC News for more] But the…
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Prove science with... Faith?
How can one believe science has no limits? By the interpretation of Gödel's theorem, no section of human knowledge (e.g. arithmetic) can prove its consistency by... it self. But this implies that it may be proved by means of another section of human thought. So maybe the consistency of Science can be proved in... an un-scientific…
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Knowledge, Faith, Evidence, Truth...
What is knowledge, if not Faith in the truthness of a proposition? Based to "evidence" up to a point yes, but Faith nontheless. And what does "evidence" mean anyway? What we observe is what we observe. "Evidence" is an artificial human-made word which conveys no meaning whatsoever, besides the meaning we chose to give it. Evidence is…
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