Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2014
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3 p. 155.
4 as described by Hodges, Wilfrid in “What is a Structure Theory,” Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, (1987), vol. 19, 209–237 Google Scholar. Shelah's abstract announcing the final step of the proof was called “Why am I so happy?”, Abstracts Amer. Math. Soc., 3 (1982), 282 Google Scholar.
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6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 p. 931.
9 p. 933.
10 p. 934.
11 p. 931.
12 Harris has written about 5 philosophical papers out of a total of 70. The remainder are mostly in the area of number theory.
13 p. 973.
14 p. 970. Italics the reviewer's.
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16 p. 971. Harris is quoting from Corfield's, David Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics, Oxford 2003 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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21 Many of the above-cited remarks, as well as those of a similar critical nature, are a somewhat disparate collection of citations from the literature. It is therefore perhaps not entirely clear what the specifics of Harris's own criticism amounts to.
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