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MY CASE AGAINST MATH—THE CASE FOR FICTIONALISM.
It’s said that those who have difficulty in understanding mathematical knowledge are dyscalculia—a form of disorder. But this is just absolutely rubbish—I believe. It’s one thing to be able to apply patterns and formulas to figures and letters to obtain results, and it’s another to “know” what, for example, 3 is, and “show” it in existence—as real. 3 as a figure does not exist, its existence is…
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Ask Dr. Silverman 12 — Nominally Platonic, Platonically Nominal: Fictionalism, Neo-Meinongianism, and Paraphrase Nominalism
Ask Dr. Silverman 12 — Nominally Platonic, Platonically Nominal: Fictionalism, Neo-Meinongianism, and Paraphrase Nominalism
Interviewer: Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Interviewees: Dr. Herb Silverman
Numbering: Issue 3: Mathematics, Counselling Psychology, and More
Place of Publication: Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Title: Question Time
Web Domain: http://www.in-sightjournal.com
Individual Publication Date: July 18, 2019
Issue Publication Date: January 1, 2019
Name of Publisher: In-Sight Publishing
Frequency: Three Times…
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Fictionalism is the view in philosophy according to which statements that appear to be descriptions of the world should not be construed as such, but should instead be understood as cases of "make believe", of pretending to treat something as literally true (a "useful fiction").
Wikipedia
See also: empty name, fictionalism,
OKAY THIS GUY'S ARROGANT
Watching PBS Idea Channel is basically like foreplay.
On Han Solo
If skepticism shows us that the real world may not in fact be real, that people, places, and things we know may not truly exist, and that makes no difference to us, what exactly is the difference between fiction and nonfiction, between Lassie and my dog, Mickie (besides the whole heroism thing)?
