Mathematicism

Mathematicism is any opinion, viewpoint, school of thought, or philosophy that states that everything can be described/defined/modelled ultimately by mathematics, or that the universe and reality (both material and mental/spiritual) are fundamentally/fully/only mathematical, i.e. that 'everything is mathematics' necessitating the ideas of logic, reason, mind, and spirit.

Overview

Mathematicism is a form of rationalist idealist or mentalist/spiritualist monism. The idea started in the West with ancient Greece's Pythagoreanism, and continued in other rationalist idealist schools of thought such as Platonism.[1] The term 'mathematicism' has additional meanings among Cartesian idealist philosophers and mathematicians, such as describing the ability and process to study reality mathematically.[2][3]

Mathematicism includes (but is not limited to) the following (chronological order):

gollark: What if I want to do tax evasion instead?
gollark: You mean paid-for-by-other-people education, yes.
gollark: It's been argued that it works as a signal to employers that you are at least vaguely competent enough to do something for 4ish years, able to stick to it for that time, and have some basic level of intelligence, more than providing much educational value.
gollark: They would have to test expected job performance some other way.
gollark: One idea someone had was to just disallow employers from asking if you have a college degree.

See also

Notes
  1. Gabriel, Markus. Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2015, ch. 4. Limits of Set-Theoretical Ontology and Contemporary Nihilism.
  2. Sasaki, Chikara, Descartes’s Mathematical Thought, Springer, 2013, p. 283.
  3. Gilson, Étienne. The Unity of Philosophical Experience. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1999, p. 133.
  4. Maudlin, Tim. New Foundations for Physical Geometry: The Theory of Linear Structures. Oxford University Press. 2014, p. 52.
  5. Hockney, Mike. The God Series. Hyperreality Books, 2015. 32 vols.

References
  • "mathematicism". Britannica.
  • "mathematicism". Collins Dictionary.
  • "mathematicism". Oxford Living Dictionary.


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