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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Elements of Intuitionism' and 'Letters to Bouvet'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / c. Potential infinite

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Platonists ruin infinity, which is precisely a growing structure which is never completed [Dummett]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism

15939

For intuitionists it is constructed proofs (which take time) which make statements true [Dummett]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

19407

We want good education and sociability, rather than lots of moral precepts [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]