[FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce

[Frank Wimberly]

Nick,

Would the claim that there are more rational numbers (fractions, loosely
speaking) than integers be an example of the common experience of the world?

Frank

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On Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 11:38 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Jon Z and Frank have me reading Cormac McCarthy.  I have started with his
> last book, Stella Maris  (?Star of the Sea?).  It is the dialogue that
> each of us has always wished we had with our psychiatrist . It is witty,
> often funny, makes lots of references to Los Alamos, is always engaging,
> and sometimes deep.  I am enjoying it and may have to read it a second
> time.
>
> In the following lines, the patient character expresses an opinion on the
> central issue of Pragmat[ic]ism.
>
>  *Patient:] …The world you live in is shored some up by a collection of
> agreements.  Is that something you think about?  The hope is that the truth
> of the world somehow lies in the common experience of it.  Of course the
> history of science and mathematics and even philosophy is a good bit at
> odds with this notion.  Innovation and discovery by definition war against
> the common understanding.  One should be wary.  What do you think? [pp
> 91-2]*
>
> I am not going to comment.  I just thought you might like to have the
> quote to mull over.
>
> Nick
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