shminux comments on [SEQ RERUN] Math is Subjunctively Objective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 12 July 2012 05:43:42AM -2 points [-]

It's after reading posts like this that I'm happy to stick with instrumentalism, where questions like "is 2+3=5 true?" are meaningless. Peano arithmetic is a useful (meta-)model, and that's all there is to it.