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guslI want to call myself an instrumentalist. Can anyone provide reasons why I shouldn't want to?
By the way, ordinal arithmetic (where addition and multiplication are not commutative) seems cool, though a bit of "abstract nonsense". I don't like non-computational things... I like to think of infinity as a limit.
What do instrumentalists think of set theory? Does a transfinite ordinal ever come in handy?
Do different set theories have any consequences for physicists, or any scientists at all, for that matter?
Some PoS readings for later:
The Empiricist Challenge: Knowledge Empiricism and the Underdetermination Argument
Some important concepts of PoS
By the way, ordinal arithmetic (where addition and multiplication are not commutative) seems cool, though a bit of "abstract nonsense". I don't like non-computational things... I like to think of infinity as a limit.
What do instrumentalists think of set theory? Does a transfinite ordinal ever come in handy?
Do different set theories have any consequences for physicists, or any scientists at all, for that matter?
Some PoS readings for later:
The Empiricist Challenge: Knowledge Empiricism and the Underdetermination Argument
Some important concepts of PoS