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Ideas for 'Truth and the Past', 'Letters to Bentley' and 'Causal Powers'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

13152

We can talk of 'innumerable number', about the infinite points on a line [Newton]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / b. Types of number

15273

Points can be 'dense' by unending division, but must meet a tougher criterion to be 'continuous' [Harré/Madden]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / i. Reals from cuts

15274

Points are 'continuous' if any 'cut' point participates in both halves of the cut [Harré/Madden]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

13151

Not all infinites are equal [Newton]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism

8190	Intuitionists rely on the proof of mathematical statements, not their truth [Dummett]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / e. Psychologism

15211

There is not an exclusive dichotomy between the formal and the logical [Harré/Madden]