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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Reals by Abstraction' and 'Dispositional Essentialism Grounds Laws of Nature?'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

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The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / a. For mathematical platonism

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One is, so numbers exist, so endless numbers exist, and each one must partake of being [Plato]