6 ideas
16567 | Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D] |
8755 | Maddy replaces pure sets with just objects and perceived sets of objects [Maddy, by Shapiro] |
10632 | The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright] |
10718 | A natural number is a property of sets [Maddy, by Oliver] |
8756 | Intuition doesn't support much mathematics, and we should question its reliability [Maddy, by Shapiro] |
17733 | We know mind-independent mathematical truths through sets, which rest on experience [Maddy, by Jenkins] |