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Ideas for 'teaching', 'Remarks on the definition and nature of mathematics' and 'Nominalism'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / m. One

7485	For Pythagoreans 'one' is not a number, but the foundation of numbers [Pythagoras, by Watson]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism

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It is untenable that mathematics is general physical truths, because it needs infinity [Curry]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique

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Saying mathematics is logic is merely replacing one undefined term by another [Curry]