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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Making Things Happen' and 'Naturalism in Mathematics'

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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]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

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Scientists posit as few entities as possible, but set theorist posit as many as possible [Maddy]

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Maybe applications of continuum mathematics are all idealisations [Maddy]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism

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We can get arithmetic directly from HP; Law V was used to get HP from the definition of number [Maddy]