RE: Religion and Science are 1000% Opposite
September 14, 2017 at 5:08 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2017 at 5:11 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(September 13, 2017 at 8:19 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(September 13, 2017 at 7:37 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: What I am reading sounds to me like question begging on a massive scale. The statements "People use mathematics to describe reality" and "Mathematical objects are not real" are incompatible statements.
Maybe they're real human constructs that map to the empirical world real well. Those don't seem like mutually exclusive choices.
If a human construct actually maps onto the empirical real world, then there is some real object in or feature of the empirical world capable of being mapped. Otherwise you have an invented set of symbols that only accidentally reflects phenomenal experience, i.e. there is no essential reason for their correspondence. Now that could indeed be the case, but that is the stance that the world is unintelligible.