[FRIAM] New Mexican's Sunday's story on education proficiency

[Nicholas Thompson]

Hi   Jon,

As a Peircean, I neverdoubted it for a minute.  A true ;roposition is one upon which we will agree in the very long run.  A real thing is any concept about which a true proposition can be uttered.   I think that makes numbers, and right triangles real given that 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 and  that the squire upon the hippopotamus is equal to the son of the squires on the other two hides. So they are real even though we will neverever touch one.

Weird.

Nick
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Numbers are real things. The more one explores them, the more experiences one has of them, the more confidently one comes to rely on them.
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