Controversy: Axiomatisches Mißverstandnis  

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Weintraub, E. Roy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Economic Journal (EBSCO) vol. 108 no. 451 (Nov. 1998), page 1837-1847.
Fulltext: 1837.pdf (136.41KB)

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From the axiomatic point of view, mathematics appears thus as a storehouse of abstract forms - the mathematical structures; and so it happens without our knowing how that certain aspects of empirical reality fit themselves into these forms, as if through a kind of preadaptation. (Bourbaki, 1950, p. 231) So you believe that the application of mathematics to the physical world is a miracle? If so, then I invite you to admire another miracle; I can travel around the world with my American Express card. You say of the second, `That's just a network. If you step out of it by so much as an inch, your card will be valueless.' Quite so. That is what I am saying about science, nothing more and nothing less.

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