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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Is Mathematics purely Linguistic?' and 'On Platonism in Mathematics'

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

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Very few things in set theory remain valid in intuitionist mathematics [Bernays]

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

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Restricted Platonism is just an ideal projection of a domain of thought [Bernays]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique

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Mathematical abstraction just goes in a different direction from logic [Bernays]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Numbers are just verbal conveniences, which can be analysed away [Russell]

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]