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Ideas for 'Difference and Repetition', 'The Boundary Stones of Thought' and 'Good and Evil'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

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Maybe an ordinal is a property of isomorphic well-ordered sets, and not itself a set [Rumfitt]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / k. Infinitesimals

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Infinitesimals do not stand in a determinate order relation to zero [Rumfitt]

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

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Cantor and Dedekind aimed to give analysis a foundation in set theory (rather than geometry) [Rumfitt]