[FOM] Truth and existence

[Alex Blum]

Arnon writes:
 >
> I am sorry, but I do not see the difference between the claim that
> one can believe in the objective truth of arithmetic without also
> believing in the existence of numbers, and the claim that
> one can believe in the objective truth of the stories of the Greek
> mythology without also believing in the (past) existence of the Greek 
> gods.
> I certainly miss something here.

Numbers do not enter into real or putative causal relations, the Greek gods 
do.

Alex Blum