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''Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'?st1=Michael Devitt', 'On the Introduction of Transfinite Numbers' and 'Logicism and Ontological Commits. of Arithmetic'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
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10027
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Mathematics is higher-order modal logic [Hodes]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers
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Von Neumann treated cardinals as a special sort of ordinal [Neumann, by Hart,WD]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers
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A von Neumann ordinal is a transitive set with transitive elements [Neumann, by Badiou]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / f. Arithmetic
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Arithmetic must allow for the possibility of only a finite total of objects [Hodes]
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