shminux comments on Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild - Less Wrong

35 Post author: shminux 06 June 2014 11:53PM

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Comment author: shminux 08 June 2014 05:46:43AM 0 points [-]

I believe I'm in basic agreement. Definitely in the nominalist camp.

Actually, I am not a nominalist, I only adopted a somewhat-nominalist position for this post to express what I think about math. In actuality I slide all the way down the slippery slope and consider the term "exist" meaningless except in the original sense of "perceived". But that would be a subject for a different post.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 21 June 2014 03:36:05PM 0 points [-]

Not even "potentially receivable"?