From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/2662 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eduardo Dubuc Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Re: Getting rid of cardinality as an issue Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:56:27 -0300 (ART) Message-ID: <20040423205635Z435405-14045+2640@mate.dm.uba.ar> References: <408830B9.8050605@kestrel.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241018814 5209 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:26:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:26:54 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Sat Apr 24 15:24:15 2004 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:24:15 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.10) id 1BHRn4-0002hK-00 for categories-list@mta.ca; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:22:14 -0300 In-Reply-To: <408830B9.8050605@kestrel.edu> from "Dusko Pavlovic" at Apr 22, 2004 01:53:13 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 41 Original-Lines: 31 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:2662 Archived-At: Dusko Pavlovic wrote: "why working mathematicians don't care for foundations?" very simple anwer: foundations is just an area within mathematics the working mathemeticians who care about foundations are those who work in foundations why do not ask the question: "why working mathematicians don't care for ring theory?" well, because we think that those who work in ring theory are working mathematicians but there are a lot who do not work in ring theory, and do not care either for foundations it is the same thing why we give foundations a different status ? saludos eduardo dubuc