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'Letters to Bentley', 'Conceptions of Truth' and 'Metaphysics: the logical approach'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry
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Greeks saw the science of proportion as the link between geometry and arithmetic [Benardete,JA]
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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 / 3. Nature of Numbers / b. Types of number
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Negatives, rationals, irrationals and imaginaries are all postulated to solve baffling equations [Benardete,JA]
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Natural numbers are seen in terms of either their ordinality (Peano), or cardinality (set theory) [Benardete,JA]
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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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