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| Aug 10, 2011 at 3:43 | comment | added | Cole Leahy | Thanks to all for your replies. I've learned some things! Since I can't accept multiple answers, I pick Andreas's, which resembles the view I started with, and adds to it a reason to prefer ZFC and a reminder that rigorous discourse in natural language is not obstructed by the lack of a model theoretic semantics. | |
| Aug 10, 2011 at 3:36 | vote | accept | Cole Leahy | ||
| Aug 8, 2011 at 19:31 | answer | added | Joel David Hamkins | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 2, 2011 at 14:18 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | Voted to close. MO is not a discussion site. | |
| Aug 2, 2011 at 4:31 | answer | added | Mike Shulman | timeline score: 21 | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 10:39 | comment | added | Qfwfq | I'm surprised it hasn't been closed as "not a real question" yet (though I will not vote to close because I'm interested in the discussion). | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 6:31 | answer | added | Stefan Geschke | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 5:45 | comment | added | Cole Leahy | Tom, I wish to be as liberal as possible regarding the notion of object: anything consistent with our usual way of thinking is fair. Yet I wonder whether the notion of object is too fundamental to admit further analysis. That said, here are a few shots in the dark: (1) Objects are the bearers of properties. (2) Objects are what we quantify over in our informal discourse. The intended range of quantification of the variables of a fixed formal theory may, however, fail to exhaust all the objects. (3) The essence of objects is not becoming, but rather being; an endless process is not an object. | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 5:15 | comment | added | Tom Leinster | Can you say what you take the word "object" to mean? | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 0:40 | answer | added | Andreas Blass | timeline score: 28 | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 0:18 | history | edited | Cole Leahy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2011 at 22:47 | comment | added | paul garrett | Although I've not thought about these things for some decades, it seems to me that this is an unusually-well-considered question! :) | |
| Jul 31, 2011 at 22:45 | comment | added | Cole Leahy | While similar questions have already been posed on MO, I thought it worthwhile to approach the topic from this angle. I apologize if this upsets anyone. | |
| Jul 31, 2011 at 22:35 | history | asked | Cole Leahy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |