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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

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Maybe applications of continuum mathematics are all idealisations [Maddy]

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Scientists posit as few entities as possible, but set theorist posit as many as possible [Maddy]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

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Frege aimed to discover the logical foundations which justify arithmetical judgements [Frege, by Burge]

8689	Eventually Frege tried to found arithmetic in geometry instead of in logic [Frege, by Friend]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism

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We can get arithmetic directly from HP; Law V was used to get HP from the definition of number [Maddy]