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Maths deals with quantities of physical significance, ignoring irrelevant features
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Full Idea:
Mathematics can serve to provide a framework within which one deals only with quantities of physical significance, ignoring other, irrelevant things.
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From:
Robert Geroch (Mathematical Physics [1985], p.1), quoted by Charles Chihara - A Structural Account of Mathematics 9.8
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A reaction:
This is a modern physicist espousing abstractionism, as derided and dismissed by Frege and Geach. It's common sense, really.
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