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Re:He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields M... by Koshkin on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:43AM (#31987527)
But Platonism is not a model of anything at all. It’s just a philosophical idea which, by the way, has no impact on mathematics proper, either.
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Re:He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields M... by keiferski on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:28AM (#31989363)
Platonism is a metaphysical model of the universe. It’s also one of the most popular approaches to the philosophy of mathematics. This is explained in the link I posted.
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Re:He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields M... by Koshkin on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:51AM (#31989748)
In the link, they only talk about "models of a theory" and the "mathematical/set-theoretical universe," none of which has to do with "a metaphysical model of the universe."
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Re:He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields M... by keiferski on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:03PM (#31989933)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism

This is…basic philosophical knowledge about Plato’s ideas. It’s not up for debate.

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