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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'Intuitionism: an Introduction' and 'Hilbert's Programme'

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

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Gödel showed that the syntactic approach to the infinite is of limited value [Kreisel]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics

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The study of mathematical foundations needs new non-mathematical concepts [Kreisel]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique

8754	Logic is dependent on mathematics, not the other way round [Heyting, by Shapiro]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space

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The natural conception of points ducks the problem of naming or constructing each point [Kreisel]