Ideas from 'On the Foundations of Logic and Arithmetic' by David Hilbert [1904], by Theme Structure
[found in 'From Frege to Gödel 1879-1931' (ed/tr Heijenoort,Jean van) [Harvard 1967,0-674-32449-8]].
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
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The existence of an arbitrarily large number refutes the idea that numbers come from experience
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
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Logic already contains some arithmetic, so the two must be developed together
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