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> I do appreciate you providing some relevant information instead of just telling everyone else they're wrong. You still haven't put any of your own ideas on the line though. Is there an approach you believe is correct, and why?

I think a form of logicism (the view that mathematical statements are logical tautologies in disguise) is true at least for arithmetic. There are some ways to interpret them using logical truths from pure higher-order logic. I'm not sure about most other parts of mathematics.

> Here's one of mine so I play by my own rules: philosophical questions don't have any testable hypothesis by nature

I think they are testable by performing conceptual analysis, which consists in organizing data from semantic intuitions about the involved concepts.



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