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'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'Mathematical Truth' and 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
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Mathematical truth is always compromising between ordinary language and sensible epistemology [Benacerraf]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / a. Defining numbers
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The concept of number is just what all numbers have in common [Wittgenstein]
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A number is a repeated operation [Wittgenstein]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / b. Mathematics is not set theory
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The theory of classes is superfluous in mathematics [Wittgenstein]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism
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Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan]
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The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
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Wittgenstein hated logicism, and described it as a cancerous growth [Wittgenstein, by Monk]
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The logic of the world is shown by tautologies in logic, and by equations in mathematics [Wittgenstein]
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