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'Epistemological Disjunctivism', 'Making It Explicit' and 'Elements of Geometry'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry
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Euclid's geometry is synthetic, but Descartes produced an analytic version of it [Euclid, by Resnik]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / b. Types of number
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An assumption that there is a largest prime leads to a contradiction [Euclid, by Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / m. One
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A unit is that according to which each existing thing is said to be one [Euclid]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite
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Postulate 2 says a line can be extended continuously [Euclid, by Shapiro]
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