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Ideas for Peter Geach, Nicholas Hill and Jos A. Benardete
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry
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Greeks saw the science of proportion as the link between geometry and arithmetic [Benardete,JA]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / b. Types of number
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Negatives, rationals, irrationals and imaginaries are all postulated to solve baffling equations [Benardete,JA]
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Natural numbers are seen in terms of either their ordinality (Peano), or cardinality (set theory) [Benardete,JA]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / d. Counting via concepts
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Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
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Abstraction from objects won't reveal an operation's being performed 'so many times' [Geach]
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