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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions' and 'Boole calculus and the Concept script'
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics
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Categories are the best foundation for mathematics [Shapiro]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / g. Incompleteness of Arithmetic
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Gödel showed that arithmetic is either incomplete or inconsistent [Gödel, by Rey]
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First Incompleteness: arithmetic must always be incomplete [Gödel, by Smith,P]
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Arithmetical truth cannot be fully and formally derived from axioms and inference rules [Gödel, by Nagel/Newman]
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Gödel's Second says that semantic consequence outruns provability [Gödel, by Hanna]
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First Incompleteness: a decent consistent system is syntactically incomplete [Gödel, by George/Velleman]
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Second Incompleteness: a decent consistent system can't prove its own consistency [Gödel, by George/Velleman]
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There is a sentence which a theory can show is true iff it is unprovable [Gödel, by Smith,P]
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'This system can't prove this statement' makes it unprovable either way [Gödel, by Clegg]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / f. Zermelo numbers
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Two definitions of 3 in terms of sets disagree over whether 1 is a member of 3 [Shapiro]
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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism
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Numbers do not exist independently; the essence of a number is its relations to other numbers [Shapiro]
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A 'system' is related objects; a 'pattern' or 'structure' abstracts the pure relations from them [Shapiro]
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