I’ve been wondering. The conventional wisdom says that it’s a problem for mathematical realism to explain how we can come to understand mathematical facts without causally interacting with them. But surely you could build causal diagrams with logical uncertainty in them and they would show that mathematical facts do indeed causally influence your brain?
Also, I would say the problem (if any) is the location of 2, 3, and 5, not the location of 2+3=5, unless the location of “Napoleon is dead” is also a problem.
I’ve been wondering. The conventional wisdom says that it’s a problem for mathematical realism to explain how we can come to understand mathematical facts without causally interacting with them. But surely you could build causal diagrams with logical uncertainty in them and they would show that mathematical facts do indeed causally influence your brain?
Also, I would say the problem (if any) is the location of 2, 3, and 5, not the location of 2+3=5, unless the location of “Napoleon is dead” is also a problem.
Where is the location of “dead”?