Concept tag
#platonism
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What is Benacerraf’s dilemma, in words a school leaver can follow?
I finished senior high school this year and I'm taking a gap year, which my parents call wasting time. I've been reading about whether numbers are discovered or invented, because my maths teacher always said "we discover mathematics, we don't make it…
Started by Fajar Nugroho4 replies -
If numbers aren’t physical, how could we ever know anything about them?
I count tablets all day. Three tablets, thirty tablets, a strip of ten. The tablets are physical: I can drop them, and I do. But the three is not in any of them. You can't drop a three. My son's maths teacher…
Started by Hetal Shah4 replies