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Originally Posted by asaris
Suave, how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?  |
Depends whether they're fat angels or not.
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Originally Posted by Yakk
Which is better, idealistic mathematics or constructive mathematics?
This is a philosophical question. It's impacts are practical, and should be considered.
Occam's razor is a philosophical guide to science because it keeps on working, and clears up impractical theoretical clutter.
Restricting Philosophy to the practical is one extreme -- removing consideration of the practical from the realm of Philsophical thought is another. There are points in between these extreme positions.
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If we apply the consideration of practicality to philosophical debate though, there is no debate in many cases. When it pertains to something like "do colours really exist", for practical reasons, colours do exist; we see them and therefore they do. The capacity in which they exist can also be practically explained through physics. The philosophical side can only be discussed when one is willing to move
past the practical aspects of it. That is, unless you want to become engaged in a "philosophical" discussion of the definition of red. I love to engage in semantic debate, but I do not equate it to philosophy.