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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / c. Nominalist structuralism

12329	If mathematics is a logic of the possible, then questions of existence are not intrinsic to it [Badiou]
	Full Idea: If mathematics is a logic of the possible, then questions of existence are not intrinsic to it (as they are for the Platonist).
	From: Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998], 7)
	A reaction: See also Idea 12328. I file this to connect it with Hellman's modal (and nominalist) version of structuralism. Could it be that mathematics and modal logic are identical?