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All the ideas for 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld', 'Is Mathematics purely Linguistic?' and 'A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism

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It is possible that an omnipotent God might make one and two fail to equal three [Descartes]

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

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Numbers are just verbal conveniences, which can be analysed away [Russell]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]