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marcos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It’s not about not teaching the platonic definition.

The problem is that you don’t start at the platonic definition. Mathematicians don’t start there either, they start at a problem. The problem may even be a hole in some other platonic idea, but nothing is ever self-contained Platonism… except maybe for categories, but well, the problem it looks is how far pure Platonism can get you.

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