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WTF???
А вообще, там половина доказательств плесенью покрылись. Впрочем, могу помочь и привести собственное доказательство существования бога. Аргумент от справедливости, так сказать.
(C) The argument From (Natural) numbers
(I once heard Tony Kenny attribute a particularly elegant version of this argument to Bob
Adams.) It also seems plausible to think of numbers as dependent upon or even
constituted by intellectual activity; indeed, students always seem to think of them as
"ideas" or "concepts", as dependent, somehow, upon our intellectual activity. So if there
were no minds, there would be no numbers. (According to Kroneker, God made the
natural numbers and man made the rest--not quite right if the argument from sets is
correct.) But again, there are too many of them for them to arise as a result of human
intellectual activity. Consider, for example, the following series of functions: 2 lambda n
is two to the second to the second .... to the second n times. The second member is ##2
(n); the third 3#2(n), etc. (See The Mathematical Gardener, the essay by Knuth.)
6**2(15), for example would be a number many times larger than any human being could
grasp. , for example, is to the We should therefore think of them as among God's ideas.
Perhaps, as Christopher Menzel suggests (special issue of Faith and Philosophy) they are
properties of equinumerous sets, where properties are God's concepts.
(I once heard Tony Kenny attribute a particularly elegant version of this argument to Bob
Adams.) It also seems plausible to think of numbers as dependent upon or even
constituted by intellectual activity; indeed, students always seem to think of them as
"ideas" or "concepts", as dependent, somehow, upon our intellectual activity. So if there
were no minds, there would be no numbers. (According to Kroneker, God made the
natural numbers and man made the rest--not quite right if the argument from sets is
correct.) But again, there are too many of them for them to arise as a result of human
intellectual activity. Consider, for example, the following series of functions: 2 lambda n
is two to the second to the second .... to the second n times. The second member is ##2
(n); the third 3#2(n), etc. (See The Mathematical Gardener, the essay by Knuth.)
6**2(15), for example would be a number many times larger than any human being could
grasp. , for example, is to the We should therefore think of them as among God's ideas.
Perhaps, as Christopher Menzel suggests (special issue of Faith and Philosophy) they are
properties of equinumerous sets, where properties are God's concepts.
А вообще, там половина доказательств плесенью покрылись. Впрочем, могу помочь и привести собственное доказательство существования бога. Аргумент от справедливости, так сказать.
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