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Ep 185: Possibility and Actuality. Facts and Counterfactuals.

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The Reality of Abstractions

"There's an abstract reality to numbers. In some sense, they're real and they're not merely invented by us," he says. "They're discovered because they have structure that we can't impose upon them." But there would be no abstract reality on my view without a physical reality of some kind", the physicist adds.

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