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.

Contents
Overview
See also
Notes
References

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):

Pythagoreanism (Pythagoras said 'All things are numbers,' 'Number(s) rule(s) all')
Platonism (paraphrases Pythagoras's mathematicism)
Neopythagoreanism
Neoplatonism (brought Aristotelean mathematical logic to Platonism)
Cartesianism (René Descartes applied mathematical reasoning to philosophy)[3]
Leibnizianism (Dr. Gottfried Leibniz was a mathematician)
Alain Badiou, MA's philosophy
Physicist Dr. Max Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis (MUH) described as
Pythagoreanism–Platonism
'philosophical mathematics' systems described by several authors, such as Tim Maudlin's
project of a project aiming at constructing 'a rigorous mathematical structure using primitive
terms that give a natural fit with physics' and investigating 'why mathematics should provide
such a powerful language for describing the physical world.'[4] According to Maudlin, 'the
most satisfying possible answer to such a question is: Because the physical world literally
has a mathematical structure.'[4]
Mike Hockney's & Dr. Thomas Stark's Neopythagorean-Neoplatonist-Leibnizian
mathematical reality theory (philosophical/ontological mathematics)[5] (several authors use
the term ‘ontological mathematics.’)
Andoni Beratzadi Errazkin's Egoerari Ezkutitzak (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14qq
MmaNpPsu6RI_SLr9H9xWRFGwmD5NZ?usp=sharing) (2006), Architectural Essays (http
s://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13b9Msd9EU9ns7vsvjEKCL6W7s-Uf8wSn?usp=sharing)
 (2012-2013), Bilakaerari Ezkutitzak (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TvHCOjKUaGEI
wKTBFDTUewxgV_w2Z8Mm?usp=sharing) (2014), Bidaia (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1
3VWXP5v7a-WN1zlm7IDlsbpjMjajJw4O/view?usp=sharing) (2014) and Marianist Trilogy (ht
tps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sT3p-03HxZPGaOP1KULVxH5zevRZ45Yq?usp=shari
ng) (2015-2016), based on Mike Hockney.
Bingen Ereintzun Hareitzederra's The Politeia of the City of Earth (https://drive.google.com/f
ile/d/1Ioo4Sy3MD-JwBB7xCEnUGaCzEpt3GsKB/view?usp=sharing) (2017), Basque
translation of Mike Hockney's God Equation (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O8azLbdwXcs
Qq4G_N4KejBdheBynNMuC/view?usp=sharing) (2018) and On Mathematicism (https://driv
e.google.com/file/d/1AYgeLZILpzkv96-P1-lf04YnUBvSYvCy/view?fbclid=IwAR2MQYAyGXf
KP7tiRZdvNy4L6RF1fyh0BKieKbVcV65y4s4qAfiz6V1Pydw) (2019) based on Pythagoras,
Gottfried Leibniz, Kurt Gödel, Mike Hockney and Andoni Beratzadi Errazkin.
Gabirel Ezeitza Gartzia's Mathematical Book or Guide (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gJHr
_3occjze1fN52mH_SDboU_-90QLw/view?usp=sharing) (2016-2019), Mathematical Rights
or Powers (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bgZxX_dbd7nVz0JlNtir0BwXP0WdgL83/view?us
p=sharing) (2016-2019) and Mathematical Constitution or Transformation (https://drive.goog
le.com/file/d/15xnnoJ7YOgQKoVrWu9o2J5_2kcyeEwcw/view?usp=sharing) (2016-2019),
based on Mike Hockney.
Neven Knezevic's Eidomorphism (2019), based on Mike Hockney & Dr. Thomas Stark.

See also
Modern Platonism
Pancomputationalism
Digital Physics
Digital Philosophy

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 (https://books.google.com/books?id=H
1H1CAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=mathematicism&f=false), 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 (htt
ps://books.google.com/books?id=10XbAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=%2
2philosophical%20mathematics%22&f=false). Oxford University Press. 2014, p. 52.
5. Hockney, Mike. The God Series. Hyperreality Books, 2015. 32 vols.

References
"mathematicism" (https://www.britannica.com/topic/mathematicism). Britannica.
"mathematicism" (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/mathematicism).
Collins Dictionary.
"mathematicism" (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mathematicism). Oxford Living
Dictionary.
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