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No, ultrafinitism is not a doctrine about our practical counting capacities. Ultrafinitism holds that you may not have actually denoted a number by '3^^^3', because there is no such number.
Utlrafrinitists tend no to specfify the highest number, to prevent people adding one to it.
Hence "may not"