Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Pyrrho, Sphaerus and Charles Sanders Peirce

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

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Numbers are just names devised for counting [Peirce]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism

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That two two-eyed people must have four eyes is a statement about numbers, not a fact [Peirce]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

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Mathematics is close to logic, but is even more abstract [Peirce]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / c. Conceptualism

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We now know that mathematics only studies hypotheses, not facts [Peirce]