[FOM] Mathematics and precision

[Henrik Nordmark]

> Neither can the methodological abstraction make sense without some  
> concrete associations and ontology to guarantee that it is  
> sufficiently mathematical and precise.

Actually, I would make an even stronger claim. It seems to me that  
ALL abstract thought is the result of our mind doing operations that  
are in their origin concrete operations we perform in daily life in a  
much less abstract setting.

However, I am not exactly sure why this would be relevant to what  
Timothy was pointing out regarding Mathematics being defined by that  
which meets a certain level of precision.

Best,
Henrik.


Henrik Nordmark
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
www.henriknordmark.com