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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
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Mathematics is the only place where we are sure we are right [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
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'There are two apples' can be expressed logically, with no mention of numbers [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers
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'Analysis' is the theory of the real numbers [Reck/Price]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / n. Pi
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π is a 'transcendental' number, because it is not the solution of an equation [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics
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Mathematics represents the world through structurally similar models. [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 2. Proof in Mathematics
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There is no limit to how many ways something can be proved in mathematics [Brown,JR]
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Computers played an essential role in proving the four-colour theorem of maps [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / a. Axioms for numbers
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Mereological arithmetic needs infinite objects, and function definitions [Reck/Price]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / e. Peano arithmetic 2nd-order
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Peano Arithmetic can have three second-order axioms, plus '1' and 'successor' [Reck/Price]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / g. Incompleteness of Arithmetic
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The incompletability of formal arithmetic reveals that logic also cannot be completely characterized [Hale/Wright]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory
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Set-theory gives a unified and an explicit basis for mathematics [Reck/Price]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / b. Mathematics is not set theory
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Set theory may represent all of mathematics, without actually being mathematics [Brown,JR]
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When graphs are defined set-theoretically, that won't cover unlabelled graphs [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism
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Structuralism emerged from abstract algebra, axioms, and set theory and its structures [Reck/Price]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / b. Varieties of structuralism
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Relativist Structuralism just stipulates one successful model as its arithmetic [Reck/Price]
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There are 'particular' structures, and 'universal' structures (what the former have in common) [Reck/Price]
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Pattern Structuralism studies what isomorphic arithmetic models have in common [Reck/Price]
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There are Formalist, Relativist, Universalist and Pattern structuralism [Reck/Price]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / c. Nominalist structuralism
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Formalist Structuralism says the ontology is vacuous, or formal, or inference relations [Reck/Price]
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Maybe we should talk of an infinity of 'possible' objects, to avoid arithmetic being vacuous [Reck/Price]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / d. Platonist structuralism
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To see a structure in something, we must already have the idea of the structure [Brown,JR]
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Universalist Structuralism is based on generalised if-then claims, not one particular model [Reck/Price]
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Universalist Structuralism eliminates the base element, as a variable, which is then quantified out [Reck/Price]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / e. Structuralism critique
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If structures are relative, this undermines truth-value and objectivity [Hale/Wright]
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The structural view of numbers doesn't fit their usage outside arithmetical contexts [Hale/Wright]
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The existence of an infinite set is assumed by Relativist Structuralism [Reck/Price]
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Sets seem basic to mathematics, but they don't suit structuralism [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / a. For mathematical platonism
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The irrationality of root-2 was achieved by intellect, not experience [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
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There is an infinity of mathematical objects, so they can't be physical [Brown,JR]
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Numbers are not abstracted from particulars, because each number is a particular [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 5. Numbers as Adjectival
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Empiricists base numbers on objects, Platonists base them on properties [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism
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The neo-Fregean is more optimistic than Frege about contextual definitions of numbers [Hale/Wright]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism
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For nomalists there are no numbers, only numerals [Brown,JR]
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Does some mathematics depend entirely on notation? [Brown,JR]
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The most brilliant formalist was Hilbert [Brown,JR]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism
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There are no constructions for many highly desirable results in mathematics [Brown,JR]
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Constructivists say p has no value, if the value depends on Goldbach's Conjecture [Brown,JR]
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