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To call him a nihilist based on his views of Mathematics is a bit too reductionist, I think?

All Mathematicians are human, not all humans are Mathematicians.

Humans look for (and find) meaning wherever they can.

The position presented in the essay is mathematical nihilism. I make no comment on him or on his general philosophy, which I thought was obvious from context.

It was also obvious from the essay that his Mathematical nihilism didn't extend to computation.

So it kind of begs the question: What does Mathematics mean to a Computer Scientist?

Least we forget that Ed Nelson was a strong proponent of Ultrafinitism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism )

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