Comment by lovemenot
2 years ago
I will bite. How do these multi-thousand-year furniture lobbyists continue to conspire to successfully frame our contemporary ideas toward their agenda?
2 years ago
I will bite. How do these multi-thousand-year furniture lobbyists continue to conspire to successfully frame our contemporary ideas toward their agenda?
Thanks for biting. But I'm also serious.
Some evidence that I'm not joking, two more or less prominent examples...
From Roger Penrose's "The road to reality", chapter 1.3 "Is Plato's mathematical world ‘real’?":
"I am aware that there will still be many readers who find difficulty with assigning any kind of actual existence to mathematical structures. Let me make the request of such readers that they merely broaden their notion of what the term ‘existence’ can mean to them. The mathematical forms of Plato’s world clearly do not have the same kind of existence as do ordinary physical objects such as tables and chairs. They do not have spatial locations; nor do they exist in time."
"Do Chairs Exist?" by Vsauce, ~11M views: https://youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE
"How" you ask.. I think we need to trace back when philosophers started to hit on that meme. I think the "multi-thousand-year furniture lobbyists" started to jump on the bandwagon from there and things co-evolved after that. I am determined to solve that humandkind-old mystery.