[FoRK] materialism vs. humanism

[Jeff Bone]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Sat N wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2008 5:19 PM, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anything that can be investigated by any present or future science is
>> a candidate for inclusion.  For example Christian belief is by
>> definition an act of faith and can't be investigated, therefore it is
>> not real.
>>
>>
>
> How about square root of a negative real number?. You know its not  
> real, but
> it can be investigated by past science.

Well, actually, the Platonists might disagree with you.

In any case the ontological status of mathematical objects is clearly  
a ripe area of debate, but they almost surely have some kind of  
status different from, e.g. both dogs AND gods.

jb