Full Idea
A cursory examination shows that mathematicians have no aversion to saying that this-or-that mathematical entity exists. But is this a different sense of 'existence'?
Gist of Idea
Do mathematicians use 'existence' differently when they say some entity exists?
Source
C. Anthony Anderson (Identity and Existence in Logic [2014], 2.6)
Book Reference
'Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophical Logic', ed/tr. Horsten,L/Pettigrew,R [Bloomsbury 2014], p.72
A Reaction
For those of us like me and my pal Quine who say that 'exist' is univocal (i.e. only one meaning), this is a nice challenge. Quine solves it by saying maths concerns sets of objects. I, who don't like sets, am puzzled (so I turn to fictionalism...).