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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Theaetetus' and 'On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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Poincaré rejected the actual infinite, claiming definitions gave apparent infinity to finite objects [Poincaré, by Lavine]

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

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We master arithmetic by knowing all the numbers in our soul [Plato]

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