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Jon, 

 

FWIW, to Peirce, Mathematics was a distillation of Logic, and logic a distillation of "right thought"-- how we should think if we desire to hold that belief most likely to endure.  Peirce fuzzed the distinction between the empirical and thegsb logical.  All thought … including perception, of course … was in signs, and all signs were inferences.  He believed that logic was entangled in every experience, a believe that becomes incontrovertible if you look at the wiring of the visual system, which is obviously and evidently a logic board.  

Nick

 

Nicholas Thompson

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Clark University

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>From the article.

 

"Philosophers have always been divided about the roles of logic (formal

reasoning) and, by extension, of mathematics. There have been empiricists who regard reasoning as just a tool to help organize the knowledge that derives from our senses. And there have been rationalists who treat reason as a mode of mystical, direct access to ultimate truths, one which bypasses sense experience."

 

It may be surprising to hear, wrt the paragraph above, I identify as an empiricist. A psychological (particularly phenomenological) grounding for mathematics is very important to me. That we have group theory, IMO, follows from the fact that the world affords us a notion of symmetry (including the recognition of asymmetry). I am to some extent pragmatist in that the symmetries I experience are *good enough* to be ontological objects, and the idea of Symmetry (writ large) is a limit afforded by that pragmatism. Over the last week, I fell down a Piaget hole thanks to a Jordan Peterson lecture at the University of Toronto[Ϯ]. While EricC has done quite a bit over the week to help me to move on from there, I am still left with a deep interest in how we come to develop the repositories of knowledge that we do, Mathematics especially. For me, Mathematics is a theory (in the sense of a systematically organized body of knowledge) and its theorems tell us about the experience and the intimacy of perception.

 

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