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17784 | Real numbers can be eliminated, by axiom systems for complete ordered fields [Mayberry] |
17782 | Greek quantities were concrete, and ratio and proportion were their science [Mayberry] |
17781 | Real numbers were invented, as objects, to simplify and generalise 'quantity' [Mayberry] |
17447 | Parsons says counting is tagging as first, second, third..., and converting the last to a cardinal [Parsons,C, by Heck] |
17799 | Cantor's infinite is an absolute, of all the sets or all the ordinal numbers [Mayberry] |
17797 | Cantor extended the finite (rather than 'taming the infinite') [Mayberry] |
17775 | If proof and definition are central, then mathematics needs and possesses foundations [Mayberry] |
17776 | The ultimate principles and concepts of mathematics are presumed, or grasped directly [Mayberry] |
17777 | Foundations need concepts, definition rules, premises, and proof rules [Mayberry] |
17804 | Axiom theories can't give foundations for mathematics - that's using axioms to explain axioms [Mayberry] |
17792 | 1st-order PA is only interesting because of results which use 2nd-order PA [Mayberry] |
17793 | It is only 2nd-order isomorphism which suggested first-order PA completeness [Mayberry] |
17794 | Set theory is not just first-order ZF, because that is inadequate for mathematics [Mayberry] |
17802 | We don't translate mathematics into set theory, because it comes embodied in that way [Mayberry] |
17805 | Set theory is not just another axiomatised part of mathematics [Mayberry] |
8487 | Arithmetic is a development of logic, so arithmetical symbolism must expand into logical symbolism [Frege] |