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    Supports→Strict finitists identify the natural numbers with those representable as unary numerals constructible in practice.

    Strict finitists hold that only numbers constructible by counting or explicitly representable as numerals are genuine natural numbers.

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    This view is most prominently associated with Yessenin-Volpin (1961; 1970), who is in turn best known for questioning whether expressions such as \(10^{12}\) or \(2^{50}\) denote natural numbers. e. numbers up to which we may count in practice. On this basis, he outlined a foundational program wherein feasibility is treated as a basic notion and traditional arguments in favor of the validity of mathematical induction and the uniqueness of the natural number series are called into question. [48]

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