Not exact matches
Indeed, the overwhelming consensus among mathematicians who work with transfinites is that transfinite mathematics entails no ontological commitment.4 In
fact, when Platonic realism or Russellian logicism (which holds to the extra-mental
reality of infinite sets) are employed as interpretations
of infinite sets, we open the door to the very antinomies and problematics, such as the Burali - Forti antinomy and Russell's difficulty with sets and impredicative definitions, which have led mathematicians and philosophers
of mathematics to new interpretations
of set theory such as the axiomatic.
Indeed, it was precisely his effort to incorporate the cosmic vision
of Whitehead (especially the idea
of experiencing all
of reality as a single complex datum) into his own interpretation
of religious experience that created such tension in his efforts to effect a union between religious experience and scientific method; for the task
of science is to «prune down the objects [
of experience] to the limits
of its own powers
of definition and minute examination,» while «religion must deal with the total concrete
fact...» (RESM 53).
But there is a proviso: Jesus does not in
fact draw a precise line between the spheres
of God and
of Caesar;
indeed, there is no such thing as a realm
of Caesar, existing as an independent
reality, for Caesar himself has to answer before God for what he does.
But Michael Crick overlooks the
fact that, in
reality, just about all the so - called «cross-benchers» and «lords spiritual» are conservatives, as
indeed are a large proportion
of the Labour and Liberal Democrat peers.
Even though the
reality was much different, the
fact remained that the brightness dips that have been observed around KIC 8462852 were as high as 22 percent (much too high to have been caused by any transiting planets) and very chaotic in nature, giving credence to the notion that they could have
indeed been the result
of alien astro - engineering on a very large scale.
I'm rather a religious believer in the objective
reality of somethingness, so if it is in
fact an existential truth that there are
indeed multiple Universes then whether or not I know it or can observe them it would be rather silly to assert that they definitely do not exist — or vice versa.
-- REM, December 2007 First TREB president Maureen O'Neill denies the existence
of phantom bids, then faced with the
reality that it is
indeed a problem in our market, strikes a task force to «separate
fact from fiction.»