Combining Texts

Ideas for '67: Platonic Questions', 'Frege Philosophy of Language (2nd ed)' and 'Causation and Laws of Nature'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

3 ideas

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / g. Incompleteness of Arithmetic

10554

Intuitionists find the Incompleteness Theorem unsurprising, since proof is intuitive, not formal [Dummett]

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

14604

If a notion is ontologically basic, it should be needed in our best attempt at science [Schaffer,J]

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

10552

Intuitionism says that totality of numbers is only potential, but is still determinate [Dummett]