TobyBartels comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 8 - Less Wrong
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Priest (top of page 3 in the PDF above, numbered page 199) suggests an example:
In symbols:
Turning this back into English:
But not this:
One could rescue this by claiming that x exists in the speaker's past thoughts but not in reality, or something like that. But then an uncountable ordinal may also exist in the thoughts of mathematicians without existing in reality.