Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Peter Jones writes (quoting Bruno Marchal): > > > > Frankly I don't think so. Set platonism can be considered as a bold > > > assumption, but number platonism, as I said you need a sophisticated > > > form of finitism to doubt it. I recall it is just the belief that the > > > propositions of elementary arithmetic are independent of you. > > > > Arithemtical Platonism is the belief that mathematical > > structures *exist* independently of you, > > not just that they are true independently of you. > > What's the difference?
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