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What does /sci/ think of Mathematical Platonism?

>> No.10536025

>>10536022
its dumb and not science or math

next!

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>>10536022

>> No.10536035
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>it has the word quantum in it so it must be cool sciencey weirdness

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>>10536025
>not math
It's literally about the philosophy of mathematics you absolute retard.

>> No.10536231

>>10536032
Does that mean that if you could reverse time and have the Big Bang happen all over again, you might get a reality where 2+2=5?

>> No.10536256

>>10536022
>each one mysteriously connected to the other.

I don't think that there is any reason in trying to separate different metaphysical objects into their own "worlds", I doubt we have access to that kind of knowledge anyways. Mathematics seems to be a category of our understanding, something that rational beings need to have to make sense of the world. Plato got it right that we're born possessing all mathematical knowledge though.

>> No.10536279

>>10536022
untrue tier

>> No.10536325

>>10536231

No you retard it's the exact opposite it's saying mathematical truths exist outside of the contingent universe.

>> No.10536343

>>10536022
I feel strongly that only the physical exists but I can't prove it.

>> No.10536348

>>10536221
So... not math.

>> No.10536365

>>10536348
It's implicit in mathematics and you will engage with it regardless of whether or not you can name it.

>> No.10536368

>>10536256
>Plato got it right that we're born possessing all mathematical knowledge though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sense

>> No.10536390

>>10536365
no it's not. just give me axioms and bam. platonic "reality" has nothing to do with the axioms of set theory

>> No.10536419

>>10536365
Math uses a specific set of axioms as a base, if you change those axioms it's not math anymore.
Theorizing about what those axioms are and/or where they come from is valid, but not math.

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>>10536343
Do you think consciousness exists?

>> No.10536497

>>10536419
>Math uses a specific set of axioms as a base, if you change those axioms it's not math anymore.
Math isn't restricted to one set of axioms you absolute retard

>> No.10536638

>>10536419
You need to have IQ above 80 to post here.