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Ideas for 'works', 'Abstract Objects: a Case Study' and 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism

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Mathematics is both necessary and a priori because it really consists of logical truths [Yablo]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 9. Fictional Mathematics

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Putting numbers in quantifiable position (rather than many quantifiers) makes expression easier [Yablo]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / d. Predicativism

8747	Realists are happy with impredicative definitions, which describe entities in terms of other existing entities [Gödel, by Shapiro]