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Are you saying that mathematics will never be able to describe certain systems, or simply that mathematics is not yet complete?


The latter.

Also there is no "complete." See Godel's incompleteness theorem and the Church-Turing theorem.

I'm also explicitly an anti-platonist, or rather more precisely a "post-Platonist." The problem with Platonic idealism is that we have found, within the realm of Platonic forms, theorems that invalidate the central thesis of Platonic idealism.




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