Rolf_Andreassen comments on Math is Subjunctively Objective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Rolf_Andreassen 25 July 2008 10:13:49PM 0 points [-]

Is it useful to say that "2+3=5" is our shorthand for referring to the infinite number of statements of this form:

2 sheep and 3 sheep make 5 sheep 2 rocks and 3 rocks make 5 rocks 2 dinis and 3 dinis make 5 dinis

and so forth? And that the external truth of the statement depends in principle on all these various testable sub-statements?