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Nicolas Gisin on intuitionism, indeterminacy, quantum gravity

Thing in itself

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The Language of Intuition

Many mathematicians, many of them have this platomistic view. So these numbers are these mathematical objects. They exist in some platomistic world. Outside of space time, I have nothing to do with space and time. And so I think for physicists, intuition is much more natural. It doesn't make extra metaphysical assumptions about the ontology of mathematics. But when I don't want to apply that to physics, I would like to know the language in which tongue enters. And I want a language in which things can evolve. There can be some creativity. I think that exists in nature.

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