Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'A Realistic Theory of Categories'

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6 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

3340	Von Neumann defines each number as the set of all smaller numbers [Neumann, by Blackburn]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

3355	Von Neumann wanted mathematical functions to replace sets [Neumann, by Benardete,JA]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

22716

Von Neumann defined ordinals as the set of all smaller ordinals [Neumann, by Poundstone]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

13120

Chisholm divides things into contingent and necessary, and then individuals, states and non-states [Chisholm, by Westerhoff]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]