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5. We come to know about mathematics by abstracting structure from the world around us and focusing on the structure of Being mirrored in us.

— Jane Frances McDonnell The Pythagorean World (2016)

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4. Human mathematics is the cultural product of a community of rational beings.

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7. There are rational beings with mental powers surpassing those of humans who have a deeper insight into mathematics than we do.

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11. There are no absolutely undecidable propositions in mathematics.

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1. Mathematics is about the structure of Being.

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8. Model theory provides the correct picture of how mathematical languages describe mathematical reality.

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