From Cambridge to Eternity: “Nominalism of Mathematics”
To survive, we need to account for performance of the past period, the short run (read: the current period) and the long run (so many coming periods) under the Earth standard. As such, performance as in Here shalt not be as at moments, with dots, or in the “thin air” to vacuum to Eternity. In other words, we in the first place of accounting must define the boundary conditions in definitive metrics. “Indefiniteness” thereof renders nothing. Mathematics is invented largely for the sake of convenience in accounting. On the other hand, no two things in the reality are perfectly equal so as to get mathematical operation precisely true; for example, every natural unit of apple is different from all else. If so, the simplest equation of all, 1+ 1= 2 , is not quite “real” but rather “nominal.” With the above said, we might well...