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All the ideas for 'Reply to Foucher', 'Lecture on Applicability of Mathematics' and 'Is Mathematics purely Linguistic?'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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I strongly believe in the actual infinite, which indicates the perfections of its author [Leibniz]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

8732	It is spooky the way mathematics anticipates physics [Weinberg]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Numbers are just verbal conveniences, which can be analysed away [Russell]