Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 22:54:01 UTC No. 16196713
>>16196655
Finitist bros, what did he mean by this?
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 02:17:56 UTC No. 16196967
>>16196655
>Wildberger is right
Well, he has the right idea, but I'm not sure he's right about everything he says.
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 02:57:40 UTC No. 16197001
>>16196655
nah, euclid is great but stuff like calculus serves many of the same purposes. though I will say that geometry is perfect for Aryan mind which uses a visuospatial intuition, as opposed to a judeo-bourbakist mind which relies on symbols
>>16196713
Potential Infinity is all right for most finitists. they can reason about “all finite numbers” in the form of an algorithm, with the understanding that you still need to write down a particular finite number to use as input
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 04:44:55 UTC No. 16197099
>>16196655
He's right, before we abandoned Euclid there were two genders.
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 11:58:02 UTC No. 16197570
finitists are a joke, but they are infinitely less of a joke that terrence howard, aka mister "the identity property is the jim crow laws of mathematics"(page 18)
https://tcotlc.com/wp-content/uploa
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 12:28:33 UTC No. 16197601
I'm a finitist because my only exposure to the philosophy of mathematics comes from a light reading of wittgenstein
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 20:26:22 UTC No. 16199581
What is the issue with considering the collection of all natural numbers, or more strictly, considering that such a collection exists as an axiom?
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 23:54:27 UTC No. 16199944
>>16199581
The issue is that highly autistic and contrarian people with high intelligence are drawn to mathematics and for such people it is literally painful to admit you don't understand something, so to cope they say it's hocus pocus.
Since autistic, contrarian, highly intelligent people can make highly complex valid, and mostly sound arguments, it takes someone with a higher power level to spot the error.
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 00:43:45 UTC No. 16200020
>>16199944
>highly autistic and contrarian people with high intelligence
oh, that(except for the last part) is literally just /sci/
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 02:43:56 UTC No. 16200130
>>16200020
Right which is why this is the ONLY math forum anywhere where he has fans. A few curious noobs asking questions? Sure. Probably trolls from /sci/ but still not fans.
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 03:47:54 UTC No. 16200195
>>16199944
Retard, you couldn't even respond to a single point that anon made but instead went on a tangential rant like a retard
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 04:08:20 UTC No. 16200207
>>16200195
I'm AGREEING with that anon you fucking sperglord.
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 04:20:28 UTC No. 16200217
>>16200207
Why didn't your post say anything about natural numbers or axioms? It's like you went off on a retarded tangent or something