doronshadmi
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jsfisher said:http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4655701&postcount=2531
The Axiom of the Empty Set does not create anything.
jsfisher said:http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4659490&postcount=2595
There is also a temporal component to his mis-comprehension, so things like the Empty Set in axiomatic set theory can exist before there's an axiom to establish their existence.
All of this is nonsense,
It is indeed nonsense since you claim X AND its negation about the dependency of existence of the empty set on the ZF axiom of the empty set.
jsfisher said:Doron is spellbound by anthropomorphism.
Here is a part from http://www.geocities.com/complementarytheory/OMPT.pdf which clarify what I am:
The Ideal and the Real
OM's development is possible because we determine the limits of the researchable by using the weak limit (Emptiness) and the strong limit (Fullness). Cantor distinguished three levels of existences:
1) In the mind of God (the Intellectus Divinum)
2) In the mind of man (in abstracto)
3) In the physical universe (in concreto)
By using Fullness as "that has no successor" we show that Cantor's in abstracto Transfinite system is not an actual infinity. We also show how Distinction is a first-order property of any collection. These developments are based on a cognitive approach of the mathematical science. In "On the Reality of the Continuum" [10] (page 124) we find this sentence:
"From the realist standpoint, numbers and other real things do not need admitting or legitimating by humans to come into existence."
From the idealist standpoint, numbers and other real things do need admitting or legitimating by humans to come into existence. In both cases the term "real thing" has to be understood. According to the realist if "real things" are "real" iff they are totally independent of each other, then no collection is a "real thing" (total independency does not able things to be gathered).
According to the idealist if "real things" are "real" iff they are totally dependent of each other, then no collection is a "real thing" (total dependency does not able things to be identified). No collection exists in terms of total dependency (total connectivity) or total independency (total isolation). Since totalities are not researchable on their own, then any research cannot avoid the existence of collections, where collections are the only researchable "real things". Actually we find that a researchable realm is both ideal (has relations) and real (has elements).
We have to notice that there is no symmetry in using concepts like "Realist standpoint" in order to understand "real things" because if the requested result is "real things" then we actually give a privilege to the Realist standpoint over the Idealist standpoint about the requested "real thing". This asymmetry can be avoided by changing the requested results to "researchable things" instead of "real things". In that case the concept of Collection is researchable exactly because it is not totally real and not totally ideal.
Here is the last part of the quote from [10]:
"Furthermore, real objects are always legitimate objects of study in the sciences, even if they are not fully understood or known."
We agree with this quote because "real objects" are valuable for science iff they are researchable, or in other words, they are both real and ideal.
[10] Anne Newstead & James Franklin, On the Reality of the Continuum Philosophy 83
(2008), 117-27 http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/newsteadcontinuum.pdf .
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