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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

13939	No possible evidence could decide the reality of numbers, so it is a pseudo-question [Carnap]
	Full Idea: I cannot think of any possible evidence that would be regarded as relevant by both nominalists and realists about numbers, and would decide the controversy, or make one side more probable. Hence I regard the external questions as pseudo-questions.
	From: Rudolph Carnap (Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology [1950], 4)