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Ben Passant's avatar

As much as I appreciate your thoughts on SIA, posts like these are the real reason I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight.

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Problem with prime Platonism is that it gives some special undeserved status to multiplication. It makes more sense to believe only 1 exists, since only 1 is needed to construct the naturals (via Peano arithmetic), and everything follows from there. And this is sort of, well, just actual Platonism. In fact, *actual* platonists were essentially saying that the number 1 — THE One, was the only independent being, even outside of numbers. It’s basically just Pythagoreanism with ornaments

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