Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Chrysippus, Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM and Euclid

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

6297	Euclid's geometry is synthetic, but Descartes produced an analytic version of it [Euclid, by Resnik]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / b. Types of number

9603	An assumption that there is a largest prime leads to a contradiction [Euclid, by Brown,JR]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / m. One

9894	A unit is that according to which each existing thing is said to be one [Euclid]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

8738	Postulate 2 says a line can be extended continuously [Euclid, by Shapiro]