Comments on: Bishop quote http://www.arsmathematica.net/2005/12/03/bishop-quote/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Fri, 29 May 2015 09:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Walt http://www.arsmathematica.net/2005/12/03/bishop-quote/#comment-193 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 04:37:50 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/?p=178#comment-193 I did the same search as sigfpe, but it looks like Randians are contrasting constructivism to objectivism. (I guess they mean constructivism in the sense of “reality is social constructed”.)

]]> By: sigfpe http://www.arsmathematica.net/2005/12/03/bishop-quote/#comment-192 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:19:54 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/?p=178#comment-192 Not one to let an unsubstantiated comment stand I googled the four queries:

objectivism constructivism “home page”
objectivism -constructivism “home page”
-objectivism constructivism “home page”
-objectivism -constructivism “home page”

to find the number of home pages of people professing either ideology.

I then constructed the table of number of occurences of these two words:

653 87,400
177,000 1,1760,000,000

A chi-squared test shows this to be off the scale for significance. So there is, indeed, a correlation.

:-)

]]> By: andy.s http://www.arsmathematica.net/2005/12/03/bishop-quote/#comment-191 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:10:17 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/?p=178#comment-191 For some reason this guy strikes me as someone who’s really into Ayn Rand.

Have you noticed any correlation between constructivists and objectivists?

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