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Ideas for 'Against Structural Universals', 'A Structural Account of Mathematics' and 'Hilbert's Programme'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

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Gödel showed that the syntactic approach to the infinite is of limited value [Kreisel]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics

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The study of mathematical foundations needs new non-mathematical concepts [Kreisel]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

9553	Analytic geometry gave space a mathematical structure, which could then have axioms [Chihara]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / c. Nominalist structuralism

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We can replace existence of sets with possibility of constructing token sentences [Chihara, by MacBride]