Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Quotes

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“what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.”
― Introduzione alla filosofia matematica
― Introduzione alla filosofia matematica
“The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“(1)Â 0 is a number. (2)Â The successor of any number is a number. (3)Â No two numbers have the same successor. (page 6) (4)Â 0 is not the successor of any number. (5)Â Any property which belongs to 0, and also to the successor of every number which has the property, belongs to all numbers.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“it is to be presumed, for example, that there are an infinite collection of trios in the world, for if this were not the case the total number of things in the world would be finite, which, though possible, seems unlikely.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“It remains to define "successor." Given any number n, let α be a class which has n members, and let x be a term which is not a member of α. Then the class consisting of α with x added on will have n+1 members.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“0 is the class whose only member is the null-class.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“The number 0 is the number of terms in a class which has no members, i.e. in the class which is called the "null-class.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“The key to our problem lies in mathematical induction. It will be remembered that, in Chapter I., this was the fifth of the five primitive propositions which we laid down about the natural numbers. It stated that any property which belongs to 0, and to the successor of any number which has the property, belongs to all the natural numbers. This was then presented as a principle, but we shall now adopt it as a definition.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“every progression verifies Peano's five axioms.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“Peano. He showed that the entire theory of the natural numbers could be derived from three primitive ideas and five primitive propositions in addition to those of pure logic.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“The relation of husband and wife is what is called “one-one.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy: Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Primer
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy: Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Primer
“is clear that human knowledge must always be content to accept some terms as intelligible without definition,”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy: Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Primer
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy: Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Primer
“Görülmesi en kolay ÅŸey ne çok büyük, ne çok küçük, ne çok uzak ne çok yakın, ne çok karmaşık, ne ne de çok basit olandır.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“something”
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
― Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy