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Ayer, A. J (1936). Language, Truth and Logic (Chapter 1: The Elimination of Metaphysics, pp. 1–5). London: Gollancz.

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Hume, D (1748/2017). An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingTrans. & ed. J. Bennett. Early Modern Texts.

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Carnap, R. (1950). Empiricism, semantics, and ontology. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 4(11), 20–40.

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Seife, C. (2000). Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. New York: Viking.

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Carnap, R. (1966). Philosophical Foundations of Physics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Edited by M. Gardner. New York: Basic Books.

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Wigner, E. P. (1960). The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 13(1), 1–9.

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Descartes, R. (1641). Meditations on First Philosophy (Meditations 1–2). Translated by John Cottingham.

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Poole, S. (2014). Nothing but the truth: The legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Guardian

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Sagan, C. (1980). Cosmos (Chapter 1: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean, pp. 3–12, 20–21). New York: Random House.

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Quine, W. V. O. (1951). Two dogmas of empiricism. The Philosophical Review, 60(1), 20–43.

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Frege, G. (1892/1952). On sense and reference. In Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, eds. P. Geach & M. Black. Oxford: Blackwell.

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Russel, B. (1912). The Problems of Philosophy (Chapter 1: Appearance and Reality). Home University Library.

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Frege, G. (1884/1960). The Foundations of Arithmetic. Translated by J. L. Austin. New York: Harper.

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Livio, M. (2009). Is God a Mathematician? New York: Simon & Schuster.

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Heisz, E.(2012). Finding math where you least expect it: An interview with Marcus du Sautoy. Science in School, (23), 6–11.

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