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All the ideas for 'Mathematics without Numbers', 'What is Mathematical Truth?' and 'On Sensations (frags)'

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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / c. Nominalist structuralism

8698	Modal structuralism says mathematics studies possible structures, which may or may not be actualised [Hellman, by Friend]

9557	Statements of pure mathematics are elliptical for a sort of modal conditional [Hellman, by Chihara]

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Modal structuralism can only judge possibility by 'possible' models [Shapiro on Hellman]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets [Putnam]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism

2975	That honey is sweet I do not affirm, but I agree that it appears so [Timon]