-It's true that the Platonic universe contains all mathematical structures, including trivial or uninteresting ones,
-Not only trivial and uninteresting, but also contrary to the ones that are interesting. Brent Putnam (in his "What is mathematical truth?") wrote: "The question of realism, as Kreisel long ago put it, is the question of the objectivity of mathematics and not the question of the existence of mathematical objects". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
