Toni Blanco @tonibg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025The good thing is that, as Bessis says, it is irrelevant whether you believe that mathematical results exist in a transcendent way, as Plato argued, or not. Because in practice, you have to act as if they did. 110
David Bessis @davidbessis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Thanks! Re Holton and Bachelard: I never the read the former, and only read the latter during the book writing process (as a friend suggested I should) and decided not include him, because it wouldn't have added incremental clarity and I didn't want to write an "erudite" book. 110
David Bessis @davidbessis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025As for Thom, he clearly influenced me (as I read a lot about catastrophe theory in my early 20s) but not through his philosophical writings and not in a way I can easily convey. Again, I wanted to write an accessible book, not a reference-complete one. 110
