Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Nature of Truth', 'The Mental Life of Some Machines' and 'Elements of Intuitionism'

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3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth

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Truth is conceivability, or the systematic coherence of a significant whole [Joachim]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / c. Potential infinite

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Platonists ruin infinity, which is precisely a growing structure which is never completed [Dummett]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism

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For intuitionists it is constructed proofs (which take time) which make statements true [Dummett]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]