From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5229 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: pragmatic foundation Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:20:55 -0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257953544 29478 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2009 15:32:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:32:24 +0000 (UTC) To: Vaughan Pratt , Andre Joyal , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed Nov 11 16:32:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8FB3-00008B-1i for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:32:09 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1N8Eb6-00051S-Ge for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:55:00 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5229 Archived-At: Andre touches an interesting problem. I wish you (V.P.) were more clear. I can not see what is your point. Witty messages for the Illuminati don't serve any purpose, except amusement to some. I would like Bill (Lawvere) send us his opinion about Maning's views. e.d. Vaughan Pratt wrote: >> Any comments? >> AJ > > Hi Andre. I read the Manin interview in the AMS Notices with much > interest myself last week. > > With regard to your request for comments, I can only repeat von > Neumann's remark after Goedel's lecture as cited recently in Logicomix: > "It's all over." I couldn't agree more. Like a rat trap slamming shut > on a rat that we no longer need fret about. > > That the rat's ghost continues to haunt so many is an interesting > commentary on human nature. > > Cheers, > Vaughan > > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]