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Ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Philosophy of Mathematics' and 'Truth'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence

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Can we discover whether a deck is fifty-two cards, or a person is time-slices or molecules? [Shapiro]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

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The abstract/concrete boundary now seems blurred, and would need a defence [Shapiro]

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Mathematicians regard arithmetic as concrete, and group theory as abstract [Shapiro]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

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Fictionalism eschews the abstract, but it still needs the possible (without model theory) [Shapiro]

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Structuralism blurs the distinction between mathematical and ordinary objects [Shapiro]