Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Two treatises' and 'On the Concept of Number'

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4 ideas

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

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Hilbert said (to block paradoxes) that mathematical existence is entailed by consistency [Hilbert, by Potter]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

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Quantity is the capacity to be divided [Digby]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles

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Colours arise from the rarity, density and mixture of matter [Digby]