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Numbers

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Approaching Infinity
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Having rejected the set theoretic foundation for arithmetic, let us return to the beginning: what is a number?

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Huemer, M. (2016). Numbers. In: Approaching Infinity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137560872_9

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