"I don’t call myself a “Platonist,” since I don’t even know what it even means to say that mathematical truths “exist in a Platonic realm.” Indeed, that concrete way of putting things even strikes me as a step backwards—as if astronomers could one day send probes to Plato’s realm to find out what’s in it, or prove that it never existed. The concepts of “existence” and “reality” that we use when discussing physical objects are just flat-out irrelevant here. I instead call myself an “anti-anti-Platonist”: someone who’s not literally committed to a “Platonic realm” of mathematical truth, but who given the choice, would much rather that people believe in such a realm than that they spout the self-evident garbage that goes with denying math’s intellectual autonomy."
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