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Ideas for John Mayberry, John Stuart Mill and Stephen Davies
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers
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Real numbers can be eliminated, by axiom systems for complete ordered fields [Mayberry]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / a. Units
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Numbers must be assumed to have identical units, as horses are equalised in 'horse-power' [Mill]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / b. Quantity
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Greek quantities were concrete, and ratio and proportion were their science [Mayberry]
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Real numbers were invented, as objects, to simplify and generalise 'quantity' [Mayberry]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite
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Cantor extended the finite (rather than 'taming the infinite') [Mayberry]
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Cantor's infinite is an absolute, of all the sets or all the ordinal numbers [Mayberry]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics
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If proof and definition are central, then mathematics needs and possesses foundations [Mayberry]
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The ultimate principles and concepts of mathematics are presumed, or grasped directly [Mayberry]
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Foundations need concepts, definition rules, premises, and proof rules [Mayberry]
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Axiom theories can't give foundations for mathematics - that's using axioms to explain axioms [Mayberry]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / a. Axioms for numbers
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The only axioms needed are for equality, addition, and successive numbers [Mill, by Shapiro]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic
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1st-order PA is only interesting because of results which use 2nd-order PA [Mayberry]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / g. Incompleteness of Arithmetic
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It is only 2nd-order isomorphism which suggested first-order PA completeness [Mayberry]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic
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Arithmetic is based on definitions, and Sums of equals are equal, and Differences of equals are equal [Mill]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory
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Set theory is not just first-order ZF, because that is inadequate for mathematics [Mayberry]
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We don't translate mathematics into set theory, because it comes embodied in that way [Mayberry]
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Set theory is not just another axiomatised part of mathematics [Mayberry]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism
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Mill says logic and maths is induction based on a very large number of instances [Mill, by Ayer]
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If two black and two white objects in practice produced five, what colour is the fifth one? [Lewis,CI on Mill]
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Mill mistakes particular applications as integral to arithmetic, instead of general patterns [Dummett on Mill]
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There are no such things as numbers in the abstract [Mill]
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Things possess the properties of numbers, as quantity, and as countable parts [Mill]
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Numbers have generalised application to entities (such as bodies or sounds) [Mill]
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Different parcels made from three pebbles produce different actual sensations [Mill]
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'2 pebbles and 1 pebble' and '3 pebbles' name the same aggregation, but different facts [Mill]
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3=2+1 presupposes collections of objects ('Threes'), which may be divided thus [Mill]
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Numbers denote physical properties of physical phenomena [Mill]
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We can't easily distinguish 102 horses from 103, but we could arrange them to make it obvious [Mill]
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Arithmetical results give a mode of formation of a given number [Mill]
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12 is the cube of 1728 means pebbles can be aggregated a certain way [Mill]
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Numbers must be of something; they don't exist as abstractions [Mill]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
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Mill is too imprecise, and is restricted to simple arithmetic [Kitcher on Mill]
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Empirical theories of arithmetic ignore zero, limit our maths, and need probability to get started [Frege on Mill]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 5. Numbers as Adjectival
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Numbers are a very general property of objects [Mill, by Brown,JR]
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