Ultrafinitism
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In the philosophy of mathematics, ultrafinitism (also known as ultraintuitionism,[1] strict formalism,[2] strict finitism,[2] actualism,[1] predicativism,[2][3] and strong finitism)[2] is a form of finitism and intuitionism. There are various philosophies of mathematics that are called ultrafinitism. A major identifying property common among most of these philosophies is their objections to totality of number theoretic functions like exponentiation over natural numbers.
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