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Ideas for 'Necessary Existents', '11: Book of Kings 1' and 'On What There Is'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / n. Pi

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He made a molten sea, which was ten cubits across, and thirty cubits round the edge [Anon (Kings)]

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

1613	Logicists cheerfully accept reference to bound variables and all sorts of abstract entities [Quine]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

1616	Formalism says maths is built of meaningless notations; these build into rules which have meaning [Quine]

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

1615	Intuitionism says classes are invented, and abstract entities are constructed from specified ingredients [Quine]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / c. Conceptualism

1614	Conceptualism holds that there are universals but they are mind-made [Quine]