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Also on individuals, he mentions how something is not an individual merely through being named but by having a unique description or identifying process, akin, and probably based on Russell's theory of descriptions approach, And relating to space, we see that points in space are not individuals, adding to their secondary "reality" status, while numbers, at least prime numbers I would say, are true individuals.
— Apr 23, 2023 10:46AM
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Jonathan Hockey
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Many problems come from giving a reality status to space that it does not possess, that involve over applying mathematical models beyond their correct boundaries.
— Apr 23, 2023 10:47AM
Jonathan Hockey
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Some very interesting references to Leibniz in these first couple of sections regarding definitions of space, the ideality of space and how this is connected to realising that space is not a property or predicate of things it is merely an idealised abstraction from applying equivalence relations universally.
— Apr 23, 2023 10:43AM
