Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Carl Ginet, Anand Vaidya and Kit Fine

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / b. Types of number

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Dedekind cuts lead to the bizarre idea that there are many different number 1's [Fine,K]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / i. Reals from cuts

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Why should a Dedekind cut correspond to a number? [Fine,K]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / l. Zero

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Unless we know whether 0 is identical with the null set, we create confusions [Fine,K]