Sorin asked:

I am very much interested in Platonism and Mathematics. I am very glad that despite my previous
preconceived idea — that the English are very much empiricists — I find that a lot of the best
scientists-philosophers are Platonists, from John D. Barrow to Roger Penrose.

There is one thing which bothers me. All these people who try to argue in favour of the universe
apparently being ordered by mathematical laws only because we see it through our own
mathematical mind are obviously wrong. Can someone tell me were is situated, in which realm,
Newton's law of gravity?

Because obviously it works and it's not a construct of the human mind. Isn't it logical to think that all
these laws are actually mathematical laws which exist because of the Creator's Will? Maybe they are
his will or his actions, thoughts, etc. After all, Newton was right when he conceived the universe as
being put into motion by the Divine clockmaker. The one obvious thing is the Universe works, and we
didn't push it with our minds (whatever quantum mechanics tells us or the idea of a participatory
Universe). So, again, can one point to me where is Newton' law?

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I think you need to make a distinction between Newton's Law, and the action of gravity itself.
Newton's Law only came into existence when he wrote it down, and we can point to it in many books.
Gravity is a fact about the universe, which is there whether Newton figured out the law or not. It does
not depend on the existence of mathematical terms or conventions. It could be just a raw fact about
the universe, about the way things are. It may be that we invented mathematics — a sort of
symbolism that can describe the world — merely because that it the way the world is, and we are
creatures that evolved in that world. There need not be any Platonic truths that underpin it (on the
other hand, there might!).

Tim Sprod