David Nyman wrote:
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> On Mar 14, 10:18 pm, "Stathis Papaioannou" <stath....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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>> Perhaps using the term "existence" for mathematical objects is misleading.
>> It doesn't mean they exist as separate objects in the real world, just that
>> they exist as concepts. This is mathematical Platonism.
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> Yes, I understand. I guess I'm saying that nevertheless I can
> conceive of a radical negation in which even Platonic objects have no
> existence, conceptual or otherwise.
It's hard to imagine what "conceptual existence" means anyway. Sort of like "non-existent existence". It's just set of non-contradictory property statements.
Brent Meeker
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Received on Wed Mar 14 2007 - 21:41:53 PDT