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    Challenges→The platonist/fictionalist semantic theory is better than other semantic theories of mathematical discourse

    If a viable alternative theory matches the platonist/fictionalist account's consistency with speaker-intention data, then P4's claim that it is the *only* such theory is demonstrably false.

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    Consistency with speaker-intention data(as a measure of how well a theory explains human language use)
    Whether a theory matches up with evidence about what people actually mean and intend when they use certain words or statements.
    P4(Relational principle linking knowledge to its object.)
    Knowledge is what it is in relation to what it is knowledge of — the nature of knowledge is constituted by its object.
    Platonism (in philosophy of mathematics)(as a theory about what numbers and mathematical entities are)
    The view that abstract mathematical objects like numbers exist independently in their own realm, separate from the physical world and our minds.
    Viable alternative theory(as a challenger to an existing theory)
    A competing explanation or framework that is realistic, workable, and could actually be true as a serious option.

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    fictionalism(Response to the platonist singular term argument)
    The view that sentences entailing the existence of properties or relations are not literally true because no such things exist, though they may still be used colloquially to make essentially accurate claims about the world

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