Friday, April 22, 2011

person whose sci.math posts i remember ... david ... ???don't quite remember last name at moment... ??"anti-cantorian" ... ?? ... went off the deep end... ??maybe somewhat slowly though??.... ranted about (hard to quote accurately from memory ...) ... "math as observational science with computer as its instrument of observation" ... ??? ... ?? which rant as maybe sort of correct, but took wrong lesson from it ... "anti-cantorianness" ... ???right lesson as anti-[cult of proof ...] .... ???....

??vague memory of time i proposed debate with them ... ??interesting to try to reconstruct aspects of that ... why i begged off... (didn't get teaching job?? ...???...) ... where i was back then in my own philosophical progressions ... ??? ... ...

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