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[sharpc]

When philosophy discovers something wrong with science, sometimes science has to be changed - Russell's paradox comes to mind, as does Berkeley's attack on the actual infinitesimal - but more often it is philosophy that has to be changed. I do not think that the difficulties that philosophy finds with classical mathematics today are genuine difficulties; and I think that the philosophical interpretations of mathematics that we are being offered on every hand are wrong, and that "philosophical interpretation" is just what mathematics doesn't need.

Hilary Putnam