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Are Numbers Real?
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RE: Are Numbers Real?
(October 15, 2018 at 6:53 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: During a discussion of moral realism in the philosophy subforums, I was reminded that (like ethics) the status of mathematics has been brought into question as an objective enterprise that can produce truth statements.

What say you? Are numbers real? If so, in what way are they real?




Some of them are.

... but some of them are imaginary.
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Are Numbers Real? - by vulcanlogician - October 15, 2018 at 6:53 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by brewer - October 15, 2018 at 7:04 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by MysticKnight - October 15, 2018 at 7:12 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Fireball - October 15, 2018 at 7:30 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Aliza - October 15, 2018 at 7:33 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by brewer - October 15, 2018 at 9:17 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Aliza - October 15, 2018 at 7:15 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Brian37 - October 15, 2018 at 7:16 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by ignoramus - October 15, 2018 at 7:50 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Minimalist - October 15, 2018 at 8:02 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Fireball - October 15, 2018 at 8:39 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Minimalist - October 15, 2018 at 9:26 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by no one - October 15, 2018 at 8:35 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by ignoramus - October 15, 2018 at 9:08 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Fireball - October 15, 2018 at 10:13 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by The Valkyrie - October 15, 2018 at 9:16 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Aliza - October 15, 2018 at 9:55 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by The Valkyrie - October 15, 2018 at 10:27 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Little lunch - October 16, 2018 at 5:39 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by no one - October 15, 2018 at 9:38 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Fireball - October 15, 2018 at 10:05 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Reltzik - October 15, 2018 at 9:40 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by RoadRunner79 - October 15, 2018 at 9:46 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by no one - October 15, 2018 at 10:08 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by brewer - October 15, 2018 at 10:21 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by bennyboy - October 15, 2018 at 11:25 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by vulcanlogician - October 16, 2018 at 12:51 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by robvalue - October 16, 2018 at 1:26 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by vulcanlogician - October 16, 2018 at 1:46 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Aliza - October 16, 2018 at 1:57 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by robvalue - October 16, 2018 at 2:16 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by vulcanlogician - October 16, 2018 at 2:38 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by robvalue - October 16, 2018 at 2:53 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by I_am_not_mafia - October 16, 2018 at 3:15 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by vulcanlogician - October 16, 2018 at 4:39 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by robvalue - October 16, 2018 at 4:51 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by I_am_not_mafia - October 17, 2018 at 8:18 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by polymath257 - October 16, 2018 at 9:31 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Angrboda - October 16, 2018 at 11:03 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by polymath257 - October 17, 2018 at 9:20 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by vulcanlogician - October 17, 2018 at 8:08 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by ignoramus - October 15, 2018 at 11:34 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Silver - October 16, 2018 at 12:54 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by fromdownunder - October 16, 2018 at 2:46 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by I_am_not_mafia - October 16, 2018 at 3:02 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by robvalue - October 16, 2018 at 3:12 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by ignoramus - October 16, 2018 at 4:39 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Grandizer - October 16, 2018 at 5:04 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by robvalue - October 16, 2018 at 5:09 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by The Grand Nudger - October 16, 2018 at 6:02 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Angrboda - October 16, 2018 at 6:02 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by ignoramus - October 16, 2018 at 6:14 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Neo-Scholastic - October 16, 2018 at 6:23 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by ignoramus - October 16, 2018 at 6:45 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Fireball - October 16, 2018 at 6:55 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Fireball - October 16, 2018 at 10:32 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by robvalue - October 17, 2018 at 2:00 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Sal - October 17, 2018 at 9:46 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by robvalue - October 17, 2018 at 11:50 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Dr H - October 17, 2018 at 5:22 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Grandizer - October 17, 2018 at 5:32 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Dr H - October 17, 2018 at 6:14 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 17, 2018 at 6:27 pm
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by bennyboy - October 20, 2018 at 4:01 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by vulcanlogician - October 20, 2018 at 4:34 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Belacqua - October 20, 2018 at 4:52 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by downbeatplumb - October 20, 2018 at 6:51 am
RE: Are Numbers Real? - by Magilla - October 22, 2018 at 9:33 pm

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