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The absoluteness of consistency

A somewhat appealing (albeit, to me, also somewhat obscure) view of mathematics is the pluralist doctrine that every consistent mathematical theory is true, insofar as it accurately describes some mathematical structure. I want to comment on a potential worry for this view, mentioned in (Clarke-Doane 2020): that it has implausible consequences for logic.

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