Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Paul Bernays, Oscar Wilde and Augustus De Morgan

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

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Very few things in set theory remain valid in intuitionist mathematics [Bernays]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 6. Relations in Logic

17744

De Morgan started the study of relations and their properties [De Morgan, by Walicki]

13501

De Morgan found inferences involving relations, which eluded Aristotle's syllogistic [De Morgan, by Hart,WD]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

17743

De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / a. For mathematical platonism

10303

Restricted Platonism is just an ideal projection of a domain of thought [Bernays]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique

10306

Mathematical abstraction just goes in a different direction from logic [Bernays]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art

7276	All art is quite useless [Wilde]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

7274	Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral [Wilde]

7275	Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist [Wilde]