8 ideas
18832 | Mathematical statements and entities that result from an infinite process must lack a truth-value [Dummett] |
13489 | Von Neumann treated cardinals as a special sort of ordinal [Neumann, by Hart,WD] |
12336 | A von Neumann ordinal is a transitive set with transitive elements [Neumann, by Badiou] |
18180 | Von Neumann numbers are preferred, because they continue into the transfinite [Maddy on Neumann] |
18179 | For Von Neumann the successor of n is n U {n} (rather than {n}) [Neumann, by Maddy] |
15925 | Each Von Neumann ordinal number is the set of its predecessors [Neumann, by Lavine] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |