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What's Your Philosophy of Mathematics?
View results: What is your preferred Philosophy of Mathematics?
Logicism - Mathematics is reducible to logic, and mathematical truths are just tautologies
Votes:
29
36.7%
Formalism - Mathematics is just a meaningless symbolic game that happens to be useful
Votes:
9
11.4%
Intuitionism/Constructivism - Mathematics is an arbitrary invention of the human mind/brain
Votes:
12
15.2%
Platonism - Mathematical truths are truths ABOUT something objectively real, like "Platonic heaven"
Votes:
12
15.2%
Physism - Mathematics is based on the patterns humans gleam from studying the physical world
Votes:
22
27.8%
Fictionalism - Mathematics is just a made-up story that has its own internal logic
Votes:
3
3.8%
Other - Please specify or elaborate
Votes:
7
8.9%
Total voters
79
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