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Where do the natural numbers come from?

In memory of Geoffrey Joseph

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I read an ancestor of this paper at the December 1983 meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. I'd like to thank the commentator Glen Helman for helpful comments; similar thanks go to John G. Bennett.

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Hodes, H.T. Where do the natural numbers come from?. Synthese 84, 347–407 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485187

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