Dedekind … allowed his philosophy
of mind much reign, with a ‘proof’
that “there are infinite systems”;
for he gave as evidence “the
totality S of all things, which may be objects of my thought”, since as well as any of its elements s,
it contained also “the thought s’
that can be the object of my thought …This ‘proof’ did not gain a good
reception.”
-- Grattan-Guinness, The Search
for Mathematical Roots 1870 - 1940 (2000), p. 105
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