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I can already tell that a vast majority of the replies here are going to respond to the title and not the post

• tempaway33751 3y ago
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• crabmusket 3y ago
  > The question “is math real?” is answered in the epilog of this book. Cheng tells us that math is real because it is an idea and ideas are real. Solved!
  • bowsamic 3y ago
    This is not an alternative to people reading the article
    • crabmusket 3y ago
      Agreed. I just thought this little paragraph at the end of the article, which does directly address the title of the article, was amusing.
  • Lockal 3y ago
    If ideas are real, do you have any idea about entities that are not real? I mean, what is his exact definition of "unreal" things? Something that can not be formally described?
    • crabmusket 3y ago
      I'll let Parmenides take that one > It needs must be that what can be spoken and thought is; for it is possible for it to be, and it is not possible for what is nothing to be.