Benjamin Cain
1 min readOct 19, 2022

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Well, I'm afraid I had to interpet because you didn't answer my question about Platonism directly--or concisely for that matter. I asked whether you're a Platonist about math. It seems the answer now is no.

From this latest explanations of yours, it seems you're more of a Kantian, which is closer to my standpoint. You're talking about the structure of the human mind which defines the modes of our cognition.

I'm not sure how it follows that we can escape those limits by recognizing them. Either we're limited in our ways of thinking or we're not. And there's not such a good track record in laying out those exact limits. Kant thought we were transcendentally limited to Newtonian physics. Then Einstein came alone.

Still, I take the basic Kantian point in pragmatic, existential, and cosmicist directions. The Kantian noumenon is a source of horror since we know that we're limited without knowing how to go beyond those limits. We're therefore alienated from reality and must cope with that existential condition.

Can you briefly explain again what you regard as my particular habit of leaving 0 open as 0, instead of seeing nothingness as a spot I'm filling with philosophy? Are you talking about the noumenon, that which is prehumanized or unprocessed by our cognitive modes?

There's a difference between talking about the limits of the human mind or brain, and talking about the limits of individual personalities.

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Benjamin Cain
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