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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature' and 'Counting and the Natural Numbers'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / d. Natural numbers

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The essence of natural numbers must reflect all the functions they perform [Sicha]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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Counting puts an initial segment of a serial ordering 1-1 with some other entities [Sicha]

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To know how many, you need a numerical quantifier, as well as equinumerosity [Sicha]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

579	Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

578	Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

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Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter]