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challengeme discovered 10 months ago- I'm starting to read this book now. It's impressed me so far and I'm only 4 pages into it.
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Which takes intellectual priority, number or space? Neither. Smooth-seeming matter is said to be made up of atoms, scattered about like little spots, but the chunky little atoms can be thought of as bumps in the smooth fabric of space. Pushing still further, we find some thinkers breaking smooth space into distinct quanta, which are in turn represented as smooth mathematical functions. The smooth underlies the spotty, and the spotty underlies the smooth. Distinct objects are located in the same smooth space, but smooth space is made up of distinct locations. There is no real priority; the two modes of existence are complementary aspects of reality....One might also ask whether a person is best thought of as a distinct individual or as a nexus in the web of social interaction. No person exists wholly from human society, so it might seem best to say that the space of society is fundamental. On the other hand, each person can feel like an isolated individual, so maybe the number-like individuals are fundamental. Complementarity says that there is no need to try to separate the two. Reality is one, and language introduces impossible distinctions that need not be made.
another similar topic would be Philosophy of Mathematics- I'm starting to read this book now. It's impressed me so far and I'm only 4 pages into it.
