Traditionally, the problem with nominalism in mathematics has been not so much that Occam’s razor has been dulled by Plato’s beard, but rather that it has managed to remove the beard only by severing the head at the neck.
–Geoffrey Hellman, “Structuralism Without Structures”
Clever.
January 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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