Tuesday, August 02, 2011

The perils of Platonism

NF: You're so foolish!
S: You're foolish!
NF: No, you're foolish!
S: You are!
NF: Ha! Who believes in zodiacs?
S: ...
NF: Who believes in horoscopes?
S: ...
NF: Who believes in god? Who believes in voodoo? Who believes in black magic? Who believes everything-happens-for-a-reason?
S: ...
NF: So who's foolish now?
S: <*big sigh*> Who believes in the existence of numbers?

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The putdown David Hume would've approved of!

3 comments:

  1. and Doron Zeilberger too would have http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion90.html

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