orthonormal comments on Shock Level 5: Big Worlds and Modal Realism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 27 May 2010 02:11:23AM *  0 points [-]

At this point, I find it less awkward to talk about the existence of mathematical structures than to talk about what it would mean to "physically exist" if that doesn't mean "instantiated in some mathematical object". We take it too much for granted.