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Do you really believe, Einstein once asked a younger colleague, that the moon exists only when you look at it?
As with the endogenous daily cycle entrained to the sun, a monthly cycle connected to the Moon exists through a long period of unconscious observation by the body.
Dr. Pais wrote that Einstein "suddenly stopped, turned to me, and asked me if I really believed that the moon exists only if I look at it".
Thus, when Platonists say that the number 4 is an abstract object, they mean to say that it is a real and objective thing that, like the Moon, exists independently of people and their thinking but, unlike the Moon, is nonphysical.
The fact that the moon exists and is spherical is independent of anything anyone happens to say or think about the matter.
On this view, 3 is a real and objective thing that, like the moon, exists independently of us and our thinking (i.e., it is not just an idea in our heads).
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A scientist who did not believe that either the man or the moon existed could still go through all the empirical steps necessary to put the one on the other, for science as philosophy may fall and yet leave science as science standing.
Sometime between 379 and 1000 (date contested), the then Chera Dynasty king, Bhaskara Ravi Varma, bestowed a gift of copper plates to the tribe, giving 72 privileges to the community, including the freedom to practice their religion and tax exemption "as long as the world and the moon exist".
The sun and the moon panel, which Dalal explains as Yavat Chandra Divakaro (till the sun and the moon exist).
Einstein, on a walk home, asked Abraham Pais if he really believed the moon existed only if he looked at it.
(That was a trick analogy--no such moon exists).
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