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'Metaphysics: the logical approach', 'The View from Nowhere' and 'Plurals and Complexes'
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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 / 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 / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers
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The theory of the transfinite needs the ordinal numbers [Hossack]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers
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I take the real numbers to be just lengths [Hossack]
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