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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Counting and the Natural Numbers' and 'Science and Hypothesis'

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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]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects [Poincaré]

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

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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]