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'Letters to Bentley', 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' and 'A Discourse on Method'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
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We can talk of 'innumerable number', about the infinite points on a line [Newton]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure
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Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M]
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To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M]
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Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite
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Not all infinites are equal [Newton]
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