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Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Paul Benacerraf and Keith T. Maslin

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

9910	Number-as-objects works wholesale, but fails utterly object by object [Benacerraf]

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Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan]

9936	The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 5. Numbers as Adjectival

9903	Number words are not predicates, as they function very differently from adjectives [Benacerraf]

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

9904	The set-theory paradoxes mean that 17 can't be the class of all classes with 17 members [Benacerraf]