[Serious Phil] phil of math.

[Peter D]

--- In Phil-Sci-Mind at yahoogroups.com, Eray Ozkural <Philscimind at ...> wrote:

> If a "theory of sets" didn't improve our intelligence, i.e. predictive
> power, it wouldn't have any use. And therefore it wouldn't be invented.


So historians have no intelligence?

> Platonists and Formalists are just pursuing pre-scientific conceptions of
> mathematics that aren't compatible with evolution.


What's pre scientific about formalism?