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Yes, and indeed Gödel himself believed in an objective mathematical reality. What I meant to say is that the commonly accepted basis for mathematics (first order logic and ZFC) was first justified using arguments which later turned out to be false.

Logically, we are not finding better and better approximations to some mathematical laws of nature, but rather making a series of arbitrary choices (you can assert the truth or falsity of any independent statement). Philosophically, we can argue about the sense in which the continuum hypothesis ought to be true or false (that is what Gödel did), but practically it makes more sense to think of logic as a tool that you build to describe and solve specific problems.




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