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I guess that depends on how much of a Platonist you are :-D


I am an anti-platonist but still think its reasonable to say one discovered a mathematical fact. All this amounts to is discovering that you can reach a sentence in a formal language using the rules of the language and the axioms. One can believe that a recipe for pancakes exists without believing it does so via participating in an unseen ideal world.




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