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All the ideas for 'Letters to Paul Pellison-Fontinier', 'Mathematical Truth' and 'Physiologia'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

9935	Mathematical truth is always compromising between ordinary language and sensible epistemology [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

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Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan]

9936	The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

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The quantity is just the matter, in that it has extended parts and is diffuse [Charleton]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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Clearly, force is that from which action follows, when unimpeded [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time

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Time doesn't exist, since its parts don't coexist [Leibniz]