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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Is Mathematics purely Linguistic?' and 'Proof that every set can be well-ordered'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / e. Countable infinity

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Zermelo realised that Choice would facilitate the sort of 'counting' Cantor needed [Zermelo, by Lavine]

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

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

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]