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Ideas for Archimedes, Thomas M. Scanlon and Thomas Hofweber
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
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What is the relation of number words as singular-terms, adjectives/determiners, and symbols? [Hofweber]
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'2 + 2 = 4' can be read as either singular or plural [Hofweber]
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Numbers are used as singular terms, as adjectives, and as symbols [Hofweber]
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The Amazonian Piraha language is said to have no number words [Hofweber]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / f. Arithmetic
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The fundamental theorem of arithmetic is that all numbers are composed uniquely of primes [Hofweber]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics
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How can words be used for counting if they are objects? [Hofweber]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry
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Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / a. For mathematical platonism
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Why is arithmetic hard to learn, but then becomes easy? [Hofweber]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism
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Arithmetic is not about a domain of entities, as the quantifiers are purely inferential [Hofweber]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
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Arithmetic doesn’t simply depend on objects, since it is true of fictional objects [Hofweber]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 5. Numbers as Adjectival
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We might eliminate adjectival numbers by analysing them into blocks of quantifiers [Hofweber]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
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Logicism makes sense of our ability to know arithmetic just by thought [Hofweber]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism
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Neo-Fregeans are dazzled by a technical result, and ignore practicalities [Hofweber]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
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First-order logic captures the inferential relations of numbers, but not the semantics [Hofweber]
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