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Lautman's Platonism and the Concept of Ideas in Mathematics
This chapter explores Lautman's relation to Plato and discusses the concept of ideas as structural schemes rather than universals in mathematics. It compares Lautman's perspective to Deleuze's and highlights the differences in their views on higher order logic and the extraction of conceptual couples from mathematical theories.