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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

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It is plausible that x^2 = -1 had no solutions before complex numbers were 'introduced' [Fine,K]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism

8631	Cantor says that maths originates only by abstraction from objects [Cantor, by Frege]

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The indispensability argument shows that nature is non-numerical, not the denial of numbers [Fine,K]