“她和很多數學加樣,總是認為數學並沒有從宇宙得到意義,反而是賦予宇宙某種意義。宇宙中的物理實體,沒有所謂的比較大或比較小,彼此之間也沒有所謂的相似或不相似,一切都只是一種存在。而數學是完全獨立的。不過它會賦予那些實體某種可描述的意義,藉此將所有的實體分門別類,界定實體間的關係。數學不會描述實體的內在本質,只是給實體一種可能的解釋。
而也就只有這樣了。如果把數學中那些實體抽離出來,數學就會產生矛盾,而且,如果數學的形式系統內部產生了矛盾,它就會失去意義。數學是一種經驗主東西,如此而已,她已經對數學完全失去興趣。”
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