(September 4, 2012 at 6:27 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote:(September 4, 2012 at 6:18 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: No, that doesn't work.
Adding 1+1 chestnuts to make 2 chestnuts presupposes that 1+1=2, ie it presupposes the validity of mathematics in order to prove the validity of mathematics. Arguing in a circle.
Try again, won't ya?
Are you saying if you put one chestnut with another chestnut you don't have two chestnuts?
Because if thats what you're saying do be very clear about it.
Oh look the English teacher is suddenly curious as to the conundrum of assumptions!
What I'm saying is that the chestnut case is not scientific proof or evidence of the truth of the mathematical proposition 1+1=2.
There is no scientific evidence for 1+1=2. Science has to just assume fundamental axioms of mathematics are true.
