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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Letters to Samuel Masson' 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 don't admit infinite numbers, and consider infinitesimals to be useful fictions [Leibniz]

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]