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Ideas for 'Leibniz:Body,Substance,Monad', 'Mathematics, Science and Language' and 'Letter to Weber'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

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Mathematics is a mental activity which does not use language [Brouwer, by Bostock]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / i. Reals from cuts

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I say the irrational is not the cut itself, but a new creation which corresponds to the cut [Dedekind]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

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Brouwer regards the application of mathematics to the world as somehow 'wicked' [Brouwer, by Bostock]