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references a-b
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number as a progression for counting and 1-1 relations
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what is a number
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number as the extension of a class of equinumerous classes
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object and value equivalence
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context

Reference

Benacerraf, P., "What numbers could not be", Philosophical Review, 74, pp. 47-73, 1965. Google

Other Reference

p. 272-294 in Benacerraf, P., Putnam, H. (eds) Philosophy of mathematics, 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983.

Quotations
274 ;;Quote: transitive counting is measuring the cardinality of a set by counting; one-to-one correspondence
274+;;Quote: intransitive counting is repeating number words in right order, as in counting sheep
275 ;;Quote: less-than over natural numbers should be recursive so we can compare numbers and count them
275 ;;Quote: QuineWV defines the numbers as any progression; but also need transitive counting
278 ;;Quote: there are many ways to define numbers as sets; each defines relations differently; so number is not a particular set
281 ;;Quote: number words function like quantification operators; if numbers exist then so should quantifiers
281+;;Quote: FregeG defined number as an equivalence class, but numbers are neither predicates nor adjectives
284 ;;Quote: consistent set theories do not include the class of all classes with 17 members; this avoids the paradoxes
286 ;;Quote: identity statements are senseless outside of a consistent context for individuating things
286+;;Quote: while FregeG felt numbers needed a reference, it does not make sense to identify '3' with '[[[0]]]'; their contexts differ
291 ;;Quote: a sequence of number words is just that, a sequence with certain properties; not distinct from numbers
291+;;Quote: arithmetic concerns the abstract structure of progression, and not particular objects--the numbers
293 ;;Quote: the value of a particular expression is the position of a number within a sequence and the corresponding rules for counting and cardinality
293 ;;Quote: numbers have a recursive 'less-than' relation because numeric notation is generated recursively


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