Bruno Marchal wrote: > Le 17-août-06, à 00:14, complexitystudies a écrit : > > > > >> Again we are discussing the arithmetical realism (which I just > >> assume). > > > > A bold assumption, if I may say so. > > > 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.
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