(February 15, 2018 at 6:41 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(February 15, 2018 at 6:08 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Well, that has certainly been the tendency since Galileo. Those that don't manage to produce a mathematical model are generally not taken seriously.
So then Steve is simply wrong in his notion that a mathematical model of infinity must also be demonstrated to exist in the physical world before it could be considered logically possible, lol. Actually, that seems like it would be a completely ass-backwards approach, at least from the perspective of my pea brain.
It's not reasonable, that's for sure.