If semanticfacts about mathematical language can entail ontologicalconclusions, then the dispute between platonism and fictionalism cannot be characterized as purely ontological without remainder.
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The view that when we talk about numbers and mathematical objects, we're really just using a useful fiction or story—they don't actually exist in reality.
platonism (mathematical platonism)(in philosophy of mathematics)
The view that abstract mathematical objects—like numbers and geometric shapes—actually exist in a real, non-physical way, similar to how Plato believed in a realm of perfect Forms.