Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning' and 'The Thesis that Mathematics is Logic'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 3. If-Thenism

10066

Putnam coined the term 'if-thenism' [Putnam, by Musgrave]

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

15923

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

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]