FOM: wider cultural significance, part 1  Raatikainen Panu A K
Praatikainen at Wed Mar 3 12:49:54 EST 1999  Simpson wrote:
>least a significant fragment of mathematics by reducing it to
PRA...  I wonder.... I am far from being an expert in modern
physics, but  isn't it the received view in it that the universe
is finite ?  PRA, on the other hand, requires an infinite
universe of discourse. So my question is: how on earth does the
physical world provide a  model of PRA ?  Or  maybe I understood
something completely wrong ?  In any case, it would be
interesting to get this issue clarified.  Panu Raatikainen
Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy University of
Helsinki  E-mail: panu.raatikainen at  More information about
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