And that sounds like the sort of thing you might say if you were unaware of countless examples of analytic-synthetic distinction in actually applying math (say, which geometry do you live in right now? And what axioms did you deduce it from, exactly?).
He has a point. It isn’t obvious that Dawkins’ objection doesn’t apply to math. The ontological argument probably has more real-world assumptions used in it than does arithmetic.
That sounds like the sort of thing you’d say if you’d never heard of mathematics.
And that sounds like the sort of thing you might say if you were unaware of countless examples of analytic-synthetic distinction in actually applying math (say, which geometry do you live in right now? And what axioms did you deduce it from, exactly?).
He has a point. It isn’t obvious that Dawkins’ objection doesn’t apply to math. The ontological argument probably has more real-world assumptions used in it than does arithmetic.
Do people who’ve never heard of mathematics often say such things?