Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'On the Concept of Number' and 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes'

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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]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9425	Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]