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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers
13489 Von Neumann treated cardinals as a special sort of ordinal [Neumann, by Hart,WD]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers
12336 A von Neumann ordinal is a transitive set with transitive elements [Neumann, by Badiou]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry
13007 Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / g. Von Neumann numbers
18180 Von Neumann numbers are preferred, because they continue into the transfinite [Maddy on Neumann]
15925 Each Von Neumann ordinal number is the set of its predecessors [Neumann, by Lavine]
18179 For Von Neumann the successor of n is n U {n} (rather than {n}) [Neumann, by Maddy]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue
467 A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion]