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).
Gist of Idea
If mathematics is a logic of the possible, then questions of existence are not intrinsic to it
Source
Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998], 7)
Book Reference
Badiou,Alain: 'Briefings on Existence', ed/tr. Madarsz,Norman [SUNY 2006], p.103
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?
Related Idea
Idea 12328 Platonists like axioms and decisions, Aristotelians like definitions, possibilities and logic [Badiou]