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'Individuals without Sortals', 'Types and Ontology' and 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / d. Counting via concepts
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Counting 'coin in this box' may have coin as the unit, with 'in this box' merely as the scope [Ayers]
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If counting needs a sortal, what of things which fall under two sortals? [Ayers]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / a. Defining numbers
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The concept of number is just what all numbers have in common [Wittgenstein]
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A number is a repeated operation [Wittgenstein]
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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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The theory of classes is superfluous in mathematics [Wittgenstein]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
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Wittgenstein hated logicism, and described it as a cancerous growth [Wittgenstein, by Monk]
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The logic of the world is shown by tautologies in logic, and by equations in mathematics [Wittgenstein]
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