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All the ideas for 'works', 'Why Reason Can't be Naturalized' and 'Elements of Intuitionism'

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3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

8828	Truth is rational acceptability [Putnam]

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 / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

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Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

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

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