Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On the Concept of Number', 'Preface to Universal Characteristic' and 'Realism'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

2118	All other human gifts can harm us, but not correct reasoning [Leibniz]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Hilbert said (to block paradoxes) that mathematical existence is entailed by consistency [Hilbert, by Potter]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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Dummett saw realism as acceptance of bivalence, rather than of mind-independent entities [Dummett, by Potter]