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'Parmenides', 'Letter to Pythocles' and 'Realism in Mathematics'
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / a. For mathematical platonism
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One is, so numbers exist, so endless numbers exist, and each one must partake of being [Plato]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics
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Intuition doesn't support much mathematics, and we should question its reliability [Maddy, by Shapiro]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism
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We know mind-independent mathematical truths through sets, which rest on experience [Maddy, by Jenkins]
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