From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers Date: 1997/06/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 245685326 Distribution: world References: <5m57nu$7si@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5mcp5o$ei7$3@news.cc.ucf.edu> <5md1fl$9f4@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5mmvgj$61k@squire.cen.brad.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5mmvgj$61k@squire.cen.brad.ac.uk> cgrussel@bradford.ac.uk (Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats) writes: > Mathematics exists in the mind alone. You would get some pretty heated disagreement over this from many mathematicians and philosophers (you would also get a number lining up on your side...) Of course, this just punts the problem to the issue of "what is mind" - which is even more inflammatory. > It is the process of discovering and describing precisely by > symbolic means various kinds of facts and relationships. : OK, so what do these "facts" and "relationships" concern? What are they about? Of what are they facts and relationships?? Sounds like something "out there"... > I've forgotten who I'm agreeing with now. :^) :-)!! /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com