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    It is not the case that A system's inability to assign a cardinal to a totality within its own axioms does not entail that the totality lacks a determinate size in any stronger ontological sense.

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    • 1.Without axioms defining 'size,' claiming a totality has 'determinate size' is metaphysically empty—size has no meaning independent of formal structure.
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    • 2.Appeals to ontological realism about inaccessible infinities lack empirical constraint; they're unfalsifiable metaphysical speculation.
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    • 3.If two axiom systems assign different cardinalities to the same totality, invoking mind-independent size resolves nothing—contradiction remains.
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    • 1.Formal systems are inherently limited tools; their incompleteness says nothing about mind-independent mathematical reality.
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    • 2.Cantor's transfinite cardinals exist beyond ZFC; some totalities have determinate sizes even if unprovable within particular axioms.
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    • 3.Physical infinities (universe, spacetime) plausibly have objective magnitudes regardless of what any formal system can express.
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