6 ideas
15943 | Limitation of Size is not self-evident, and seems too strong [Lavine on Neumann] |
13672 | All the axioms for mathematics presuppose set theory [Neumann] |
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] |
10263 | Modal structuralism can only judge possibility by 'possible' models [Shapiro on Hellman] |
22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |