Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Letter to Weber' and 'Consilience'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

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For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy

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Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / i. Reals from cuts

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I say the irrational is not the cut itself, but a new creation which corresponds to the cut [Dedekind]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

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The biology of societies: kin selection, parenting, mating; status, territory, contracts [Wilson,EO]