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'fragments/reports', 'Apriority and Existence' and 'Is Mathematics purely Linguistic?'
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics
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We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism
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Numbers are just verbal conveniences, which can be analysed away [Russell]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 9. Fictional Mathematics
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Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo]
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