Hi Aleksandar

I would not call von Weizsäcker a platonist. But he surely knows Plato very good and thinks, that the main philosophical questions have already been posed in Platos work. In his book 'Time and Knowledge' he referenced Plato in more then 100 pages. Kant only 70.

My view (and this became much clearer to me in the discussions in the forum) is more that objective knowledge must be mathematical. In my essay I try to avoid discussions about ontology and reality as much as possible.

I hope you'll read my essay and leave a comment on it, although I had too little time to write it and develop a clear path of reasoning.

Best regards

Luca

Dear Aleksandar,

Apparently you somehow missed a comment of Lev above, so I am sort of repeating that. It is a pleasure to see that rare agreement as between yours and our essays. For instance you write, "if the natural laws are finite-duration random regularities, then the Earth can stop orbiting the Sun tomorrow, which means that our reality can disintegrate at anytime in the future." A similar idea is expressed in our essay as a necessity of immediate disintegration in that case. I do not see any point of our contradiction with your ideas; however, I think that we have something which could be new and interesting for you. I rate your essay high and invite you in my blog to express your opinion and give us your rating as well.

All the best,

Alexey Burov

    Dear Alexey,

    Thank you very much for warning me again about your essay, which I like and which is nicely written. I will post my comments on your essay blog and vote for it.

    Best regards,

    Aleksandar

    Dear Aleksandar,

    Thank you for your very interesting comments and the high grade for our essay. However, something has gone wrong with your vote, and instead of a high rating, we've received from you a very low one, a 1. We've documented our ratings and vote counts before and after your vote, so this discrepancy is definitely the case. Perhaps the easiest way to correct it would be for you to contact administration, or if you want I can do that for you. For that you can send me an email to levburov@gmail.com, which I can then forward on with the request.

    Kind Regards,

    Lev

    Dear Lev,

    I am sorry to hear this, but I am pretty sure that I gave you 8, since your rating

    jumped for 0,1 point yesterday, after I had voted. One explanation is that somebody gave you a low score without making any comment.

    Best regards,

    Aleksandar

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