Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 8:08 pm
Mathematics is a language. And correspondence theories of truth are incorrect. End of story.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 4:18 pmNobody said "Mathematical objects are real," so you'll have to take that up with somebody who thinks it. What was said was simply that mathematics has a highly-applicable correspondence to the real world (most apparent in things like physics, chemistry and engineering, for example, but true in all disciplines, really, right down to carpentry and sheep-herding). Maths tell us in symbolic language about quantities and phenomena in real life...like tension stresses in materials or numbers of sheep. And it's darn reliable.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 12:07 pm Mathematics is a language. Only Platonists think mathematical objects are real.
No, it's the only dichotomy that really matters in philosophy.False dichotomy.And a logic deals with language, not a reality outside language.
False. Not all assertions are factual ones about features of reality, with truth-value. And logical deduction is about validity, which has nothing to do with content or meaning.Deductive logic deals with propositions, which are statements about the empirical world.
Mathematics is a descriptive language, and a logic deals with language. And the origin of the universe was not a linguistic matter. So the point stands. The universe wasn't, isn't and won't be mathematical or logical. Absent mathematics and logic, the universe would be fine and dandy. A description is not the described.Well, that's a bad conclusion, but that's certainly expectable from such erroneous and simplistic premises. It could hardly be otherwise.So a cosmological argument from mathematics or logic is unsound.