Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Anaxarchus, Edwin D. Mares and Luitzen E.J. Brouwer
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
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Mathematics is a mental activity which does not use language [Brouwer, by Bostock]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy
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Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics
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Scientific laws largely rest on the results of counting and measuring [Brouwer]
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Brouwer regards the application of mathematics to the world as somehow 'wicked' [Brouwer, by Bostock]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / a. Axioms for numbers
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The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism
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Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism
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Intuitionists only accept denumerable sets [Brouwer]
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Neo-intuitionism abstracts from the reuniting of moments, to intuit bare two-oneness [Brouwer]
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Intuitionist mathematics deduces by introspective construction, and rejects unknown truths [Brouwer]
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For intuitionists there are not numbers and sets, but processes of counting and collecting [Mares]
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