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Suppose there is an infinitely long ladder in front of me. I do not know that this ladder is infinitely long, only that it is either a very long (but ...

August 19, 2010
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Thomas Pogge and Thomas Pogge

I have one question concerning about lines in mathematics. My teacher told me that two lines of different lengths are made up of the same number of points. he told ...

August 31, 2010
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Peter Smith

I am a new comer to philosophy and metaphysics in particular. I would like to know about the method of analysing and proving statements in metaphysics.Being a student of mathematics ...

July 24, 2010
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Sean Greenberg

So, it's my understanding that Russell and Whitehead's project of logicism in the Principia Mathematica didn't work out. I understand that two reasons for this are (1) that some of ...

July 29, 2010
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Peter Smith, Richard Heck, Alexander George and Peter Smith

In ZFC the primitive "membership" usually has the statement "x is an element of the set y". My question is "is the element 'x'" of a set ever not a ...

July 22, 2010
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Peter Smith and Richard Heck

Mathematics is extraordinarily effective in revealing and stating the basic laws of physics. Why is this so?

June 28, 2010
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Alexander George

5+5=9 is not an empirical fact. However it can be proven empirically (put 5 objects and four objects together, then count the result). How is it possible for non-empirical facts ...

June 27, 2010
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Allen Stairs

What is the relationship between mathematics and logic?

June 3, 2010
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Allen Stairs

Does zero represent nothingness? kal

June 17, 2010
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Allen Stairs

Even if there was no intelligent life at all in the whole universe, if there were no humans, or other thinking creatures, mathematics would still exist, wouldn't it? Of course ...

April 15, 2010
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Richard Heck

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