RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 26, 2015 at 7:22 pm
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2015 at 7:23 pm by Delicate.)
(December 26, 2015 at 7:11 pm)Kitan Wrote:The concept may refer to something that doesn't exist. But the concept itself exists.(December 26, 2015 at 7:07 pm)Delicate Wrote: Why think the concepts in question don't figure in our reality, such that knowledge of the concepts amounts to knowledge about reality?
One can have a concept about that which is not real; i.e., how science fiction and fantasy novels are created. God is precisely that, the fantasy of man's desire for a readily available answer.
The concept is thus a part of reality. It's just the referent of the concept isn't a part of reality.
So how is math a science?