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All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'Space and Time' and 'Elements of Intuitionism'

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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]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time

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Space alone, and time alone, will fade away, and only their union has an independent reality [Minkowski]