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'Metaphysics', 'Axiomatic Theories of Truth' and 'Philosophia Epicurea'
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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 / 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 / m. One
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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 / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic
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The compactness theorem can prove nonstandard models of PA [Halbach]
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The global reflection principle seems to express the soundness of Peano Arithmetic [Halbach]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic
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The idea of 'one' is the foundation of number [Aristotle]
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Each many is just ones, and is measured by the one [Aristotle]
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Number is plurality measured by unity [Aristotle]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory
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To reduce PA to ZF, we represent the non-negative integers with von Neumann ordinals [Halbach]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism
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Mathematics studies abstracted relations, commensurability and proportion [Aristotle]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / a. For mathematical platonism
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It is a simple truth that the objects of mathematics have being, of some sort [Aristotle]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism
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Aristotle removes ontology from mathematics, and replaces the true with the beautiful [Aristotle, by Badiou]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory
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Set theory was liberated early from types, and recent truth-theories are exploring type-free [Halbach]
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