Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Frege's Theory of Numbers', 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers I' and 'Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis'

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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I tried to be unsystematic and piecemeal, but failed; my papers presuppose my other views [Lewis]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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Parsons says counting is tagging as first, second, third..., and converting the last to a cardinal [Parsons,C, by Heck]

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

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We could accept the integers as primitive, then use sets to construct the rest [Cohen]