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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Immanuel Kant and Hermann von Helmholtz
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics
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Kant's intuitions struggle to judge relevance, impossibility and exactness [Kitcher on Kant]
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Mathematics can only start from an a priori intuition which is not empirical but pure [Kant]
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All necessary mathematical judgements are based on intuitions of space and time [Kant]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism
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Maths is a priori, but without its relation to empirical objects it is meaningless [Kant]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
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Mathematics cannot be empirical because it is necessary, and that has to be a priori [Kant]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
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Logicism is only noteworthy if logic has a privileged position in our ontology and epistemology [Hale/Wright]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism
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The neo-Fregean is more optimistic than Frege about contextual definitions of numbers [Hale/Wright]
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Logicism might also be revived with a quantificational approach, or an abstraction-free approach [Hale/Wright]
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Neo-Fregeanism might be better with truth-makers, rather than quantifier commitment [Hale/Wright]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
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Kant taught that mathematics is independent of logic, and cannot be grounded in it [Kant, by Hilbert]
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If 7+5=12 is analytic, then an infinity of other ways to reach 12 have to be analytic [Kant, by Dancy,J]
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Are neo-Fregeans 'maximalists' - that everything which can exist does exist? [Hale/Wright]
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