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12451 | Scientific laws largely rest on the results of counting and measuring [Brouwer] |
Full Idea: A large part of the natural laws introduced by science treat only of the mutual relations between the results of counting and measuring. | |
From: Luitzen E.J. Brouwer (Intuitionism and Formalism [1912], p.77) | |
A reaction: His point, I take it, is that the higher reaches of numbers have lost touch with the original point of the system. I now see the whole issue as just depending on conventions about the agreed extension of the word 'number'. |