On 6/8/2013 1:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 08 Jun 2013, at 05:15, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Yes, if there was a text of this it would be nice... I found this:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/
A fictionalist account holds that some things are fictional, i.e. don't exist even
though their complete description is self-consistent. Everythingists apparently reject
this idea. Platonists seem to equate 'true' with 'exists'. If you believe 17 is prime
you must believe 17 exists. I think this is wrong. If you believe that a flying pink
elephant is pink, must you believe a flying pink elephant exists?
Flying pink elephants are pink and not pink. That's why flying pink elephant
can't exist.
A pink elephant is pink by construction.
Brent
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