Dialogue sur l’infinité et la réalité

Philosophiques 10 (2):377-402 (1983)
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Cet essai cherche à faire de la complémentarité entre énergie-idée, structure et fonction, et autres couples de concepts, la base d'une nouvelle ontologie qui puisse résoudre les conflits entre les pôles de description « mental » et « physique », entre la vérité mathématique et la vérité empirique et entre la mécanique quantique et la théorie de la relativité comme formes rivales d'explication scientifique. L'auteur y plaide en faveur de la fermeture déductive de l'univers à la lumière de la relation logique entre le nombre et l'alphabet . Il y présente la réalité et l'autonomie conceptuelle des idées comme une alternative au platonisme et à d'autres idéologies. Il dispose de fausses interprétations, malentendus, et objections au moyen du dialogue.Conjugacy between energy-idea, structure and function, and other concept pairs is made the basis for a new ontology which resolves the conflicts between "mental" and "physical" poles of description, between mathematical and empirical truth, and between quantum mechanics and relativity theory as rival forms of scientific explanation. The deductive closure of the universe is argued for, in light of the logical connection between number and the alphabet . The reality and the conceptual autonomy of ideas are presented as an alternative to Platonism and other ideologies. Mistaken interpretations, misunderstandings and objections are handled through the medium of dialogue

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