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Re:What Even Is a Number? by FabHK on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:43PM (#19204167)
> every alien civilization has unicorns

I knew it, Unicorns are real!!11!

I am not sure I can conceive of aliens that don't have pi (how can they have cylindrical rockets?).

Anyway, maybe we should let the professionals deal with this.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathphil-indis/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/

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