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by 4ad 3508 days ago
Personally, I am an ultrafinitist.

By that I mean that I believe that physical systems can be completely described by constructive mathematics based on intuitionistic logic[2] operating on computable reals[3]. I believe that any other kind of mathematics, e.g. classical logic with axiom of choice can create unphysical models.

That being said, I don't object to classical logic as a purely abstract concept. Everything proved in ZFC is certainly true in ZFC! And I don't think any finitist will contest that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number