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All the ideas for 'Refutation of All Heresies', 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics' and 'Hilbert's Programme'

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6 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite
17809 Gödel showed that the syntactic approach to the infinite is of limited value [Kreisel]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics
17810 The study of mathematical foundations needs new non-mathematical concepts [Kreisel]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
21731 Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]
21730 A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model
21732 The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space
17811 The natural conception of points ducks the problem of naming or constructing each point [Kreisel]