<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Could you gentlemen pinpoint what you're labelling as the universality of math?</div><div><br>No dia 08/10/2014, às 15:01, "Norwood, Frederick Hudson" <<a href="mailto:NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu">NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu</a>> escreveu:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This isn’t the place for this debate, since I have no doubt that Gene Wolfe accepts the fact that math is universal, but I will point out that your mode of
debate (the suggestion that I don’t accept your assertion not because I disagree with it but because I find it “disturbing”) is, as Mr. Spock would say, “Highly illogical.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Rick Norwood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Urth [<a href="mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net">mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Thomas Bitterman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 08, 2014 9:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Urth Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: (urth) barrington interview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Lee <<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com" target="_blank">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I've had this debate before and I know it can be disturbing to the purely science/mathematically<br>
minded. But math isn't really "universal". It a system of calculation created by the human mind<br>
which is part of a primate brain evolved from more primitive mammalian ancestors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there an argument against the universality of mathematics that isn't just the Genetic Fallacy?<o:p></o:p></p>
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