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38 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 26 September 2012 12:25PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 26 September 2012 03:30:55PM 5 points [-]

Other: I hold a Tegmark-style "all mathematical objects exist" view, but additionally hold that this requires promoting the type of the "exists" property from boolean-valued to real-valued, so that this becomes "all mathematical objects have nonzero degree of existence", and most ordinary usages of the word "exists" pick up an implied "as a substructure of" relation to some set of universes. This "as a substructure of" relation excludes platonic objects when present, so nominalism vs. platonism reduces to the word "exists" being a pair of homonyms.

Comment author: RobbBB 15 December 2012 04:18:13AM *  -1 points [-]

Augustinian!!!!!! hssss