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How do modern platonists explain the objective, specific connections between the physical and abstract?
There seems to be an entirely objective, human-independent way in which specific physical objects relate/correspond to specific abstract objects.
Example, we don't think the abstract inverse cube law ...
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Do numbers exist independently from observers?
Do numbers have an objective existence? If life had not evolved on planet earth would there be numbers or are numbers an invention of human minds?
Are there any relevant works that discuss this? (I ...
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