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'The Origin of the Work of Art', 'works' and 'Real Essentialism'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
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Hilbert wanted to prove the consistency of all of mathematics (which realists take for granted) [Hilbert, by Friend]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
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The Aristotelian view is that numbers depend on (and are abstracted from) other things [Oderberg]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism
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The grounding of mathematics is 'in the beginning was the sign' [Hilbert]
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Hilbert substituted a syntactic for a semantic account of consistency [Hilbert, by George/Velleman]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 8. Finitism
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Hilbert aimed to prove the consistency of mathematics finitely, to show infinities won't produce contradictions [Hilbert, by George/Velleman]
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