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'Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects', 'Introduction to 'Hippias Minor'' and 'Confessions of a Philosopher'
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / a. For mathematical platonism
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Number platonism says that natural number is a sortal concept [Wright,C]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism
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We can't use empiricism to dismiss numbers, if numbers are our main evidence against empiricism [Wright,C]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 5. Numbers as Adjectival
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Treating numbers adjectivally is treating them as quantifiers [Wright,C]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism
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Wright has revived Frege's discredited logicism [Wright,C, by Benardete,JA]
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The Peano Axioms, and infinity of cardinal numbers, are logical consequences of how we explain cardinals [Wright,C]
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The aim is to follow Frege's strategy to derive the Peano Axioms, but without invoking classes [Wright,C]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
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Logicism seemed to fail by Russell's paradox, Gödel's theorems, and non-logical axioms [Wright,C]
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The standard objections are Russell's Paradox, non-logical axioms, and Gödel's theorems [Wright,C]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism
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A mathematical object exists if there is no contradiction in its definition [Waterfield]
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