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Full Idea
As mathematically understood, the world is not an object of experience but instead an object of thought.
Gist of Idea
Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience
Source
Danielle Macbeth (Pragmatism and Objective Truth [2007], p.183)
Book Ref
'New Pragmatists', ed/tr. Misak,Cheryl [OUP 2009], p.183
A Reaction
Since I am keen on citing biology to show that science does not have to be mathematical, this nicely shows that there is something wrong with a science which places a large gap between itself and the world.
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