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'Metaphysics', 'Elements of Geometry' and 'Essentialists and Essentialism'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
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Mathematical precision is only possible in immaterial things [Aristotle]
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Mathematics studies the domain of perceptible entities, but its subject-matter is not perceptible [Aristotle]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry
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Euclid's geometry is synthetic, but Descartes produced an analytic version of it [Euclid, by Resnik]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
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Perhaps numbers are substances? [Aristotle]
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Pluralities divide into discontinous countables; magnitudes divide into continuous things [Aristotle]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / b. Types of number
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An assumption that there is a largest prime leads to a contradiction [Euclid, by Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / m. One
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A unit is that according to which each existing thing is said to be one [Euclid]
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The one in number just is the particular [Aristotle]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / a. Units
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The unit is stipulated to be indivisible [Aristotle]
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If only rectilinear figures existed, then unity would be the triangle [Aristotle]
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Units came about when the unequals were equalised [Aristotle]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure
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Two men do not make one thing, as well as themselves [Aristotle]
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When we count, are we adding, or naming numbers? [Aristotle]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite
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Postulate 2 says a line can be extended continuously [Euclid, by Shapiro]
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