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All the ideas for 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld', 'Popular Scientific Lectures' and 'Structuralism'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism
15873 Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism
8921 Structuralism is now common, studying relations, with no regard for what the objects might be [Hellman]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / c. Nominalist structuralism
8922 Maybe mathematical objects only have structural roles, and no intrinsic nature [Hellman]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
21963 It is possible that an omnipotent God might make one and two fail to equal three [Descartes]