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All the ideas for 'Foundations of Geometry', 'talk' and 'On Cruelty'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

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Montaigne was the founding father of liberalism [Montaigne, by Gopnik]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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Hilbert aimed to eliminate number from geometry [Hilbert, by Hart,WD]

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

9546	Euclid axioms concerns possibilities of construction, but Hilbert's assert the existence of objects [Hilbert, by Chihara]

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Hilbert's formalisation revealed implicit congruence axioms in Euclid [Hilbert, by Horsten/Pettigrew]

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Hilbert's geometry is interesting because it captures Euclid without using real numbers [Hilbert, by Field,H]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique

7417	God can't have silly perfections, but how do we decide which ones are 'silly'? [Joslin]