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Is There a Structure of Thought That Might Produce Mathematics?
In the seventeenth century, people thought these mathematical laws were ideas in the mind of god. But i think that this problem ofr platonic mathematics is an assumption implicit in thinking of many physicists and mathematicians. Sometimes they work extremely well, and it's a very interesting question as to why they work so well. They're applying a mental construct to aspects of reality that sometimes fits well and sometimes doesn't fit so well. I see a kind of resonance between this deep structure of the world and the logic that our brains can generate. And that's what i regard as deep structuralism, a well hitory. The philosophers hav become obsessed, or went through a stage a hundred years
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