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I am indebted for comments and suggestions to Philip Caton, Graciela De Pierris, Howard Stein, William Tait, Manley Thompson, Roberto Torretti, and Daniel Warren.

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Friedman, M. Kant on concepts and intuitions in the mathematical sciences. Synthese 84, 213–257 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485378

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