Timeline for What is so special about set theory anyway?
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| Apr 18, 2018 at 15:58 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @მამუკაჯიბლაძე : This is of course always possible but I don't think that set theory is particularly worrisome here. Maybe we're missing the boat because so much of our sensory input is visual rather than olfactory or sonar, or because our brains are wired wrong, or carbon atoms have only four bonds... | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 5:44 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | Let me mention that, because of what you say, it is in principle possible that sticking to widespread paradigms created by "strong" concepts like sets, categories or types, we might be completely overlooking the whole possible directions mathematics could expand in. What if, say, my models should describe some aspects of a vortex, or a rainbow, or, say, a person with some specific neurological disroder? What does that have to do with either sets or homotopy types? Or, say, consider apparent (to me) helplessness of modern mathematics in dealing with natural language analysis... | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 5:36 | vote | accept | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | ||
| Apr 17, 2018 at 9:06 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | "from the ground up": the trouble is, there is rather rough terrain out there. | |
| Apr 16, 2018 at 15:49 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |