Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Democritus and Roger Scruton

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / a. Units

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Two can't be a self-contained unit, because it would need to be one to do that [Democritus, by Aristotle]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

3907	Could you be intellectually acquainted with numbers, but unable to count objects? [Scruton]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism

3908	If maths contains unprovable truths, then maths cannot be reduced to a set of proofs [Scruton]