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nimbus · 3501 days ago · link · · parent · post: 8-Bit Philosophy - Philosophical works presented as retro video games
That's very interesting, thank you. Does that by any chance mean that theoretical mathematicians view real things as being shadows cast by math?
user-inactivated · 3501 days ago · link ·
Most mathematicians will tell you math is just a game you play with symbols and that we don't really mean it when we say "these exists an x such that...", but there are mathematical platonists. Probably the most well-known modern mathematical platonists was Gödel. I don't know of any who claim the kind of relationship exists between mathematical objects and physical objects Plato claimed existed between the forms and physical objects. I'm hardly an expert though, they may very well be out there somewhere.