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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'Protrepticus (frags)' and 'Naturalism in Mathematics'
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics
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Scientists posit as few entities as possible, but set theorist posit as many as possible [Maddy]
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Maybe applications of continuum mathematics are all idealisations [Maddy]
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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]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
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Logicism seems to be a non-starter if (as is widely held) logic has no ontology of its own [Shapiro]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism
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Term Formalism says mathematics is just about symbols - but real numbers have no names [Shapiro]
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Game Formalism is just a matter of rules, like chess - but then why is it useful in science? [Shapiro]
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Deductivism says mathematics is logical consequences of uninterpreted axioms [Shapiro]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism
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Critics resent the way intuitionism cripples mathematics, but it allows new important distinctions [Shapiro]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / c. Conceptualism
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Conceptualist are just realists or idealist or nominalists, depending on their view of concepts [Shapiro]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / d. Predicativism
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'Impredicative' definitions refer to the thing being described [Shapiro]
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